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A Korean Adoption Story

Marcie — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:31:34 +0000

I found this on a blog I just recently visited. The story is absolutely amazing and one that I think everyone should see. The story isn’t about the race of the child but the future she faced if she had stayed in a society that did not accept her for who she was, a talented, spirited child.

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A Korean Adoption Story

A Thousand Words

Marcie — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:38:25 +0000

I’ve been getting sentimental these last few days because I know that in just a few weeks I will be breathing in the warm scent of my new son. However, nothing can compare to those days and weeks leading up to AJ’s adoption.

I came across this photo this afternoon and it stopped me in my tracks. It was in my most used photo folder on my desktop but I had passed it by so many times lately. Today I stopped and looked. He didn’t look like the same kid. So much so that I spent 30 minutes looking for a picture to prove that our representative in Russia had sent us a picture of the right child.

Of course, I knew it was him…his number was 4 and he has the same gnawed fingernails and scar on his eyebrow. But, he just seemed so peaceful, so content, so NOT my AJ.

But as I started looking through pictures that is all I found…peace. In every photo of him I see a happy child. I see Sasha, the orphan who is not really an orphan, who is content, delightful, witty, goofy, and fun.

I did not, in any picture, see grief, sadness, or anger like I see in him during the day.

And they say a picture tells a thousand words.

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A Thousand Words

NPR’s Adoption Series

Marcie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:53:58 +0000

Over the past few years NPR has offered up a fabulous series on adoption, not only stories and journals about adoptions covering domestic but also transracial, international, birth mother, and adoptee.

Their latest story is that of an orphan in the 1950’s.

In 1994 they presented The Many Faces of Adoption with four families out of the 1.6 million American families with adoptive children.

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NPR’s Adoption Series

The Orphanage, A Movie

Marcie — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:33:17 +0000

I have to tell you that I am not sure how I feel about this movie. Sure, it is just fiction, just a movie, just a work of art (and some critics say Oscar worthy).

But deep down (okay, not so deep) I know that orphanages can be scary, traumatic, hellish places and I would hate, absolutely HATE for the hundreds of thousands of children who lived in orphanages to stumble across this trailer.

What do you all think? Am I overreacting?

The really sad thing is that I am totally drawn to this movie. I LOVE thrillers and for some reason I want to know how it ends. Is that bad?

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The Orphanage, A Movie

Kylie Minogue Plans to Adopt

Marcie — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:54:58 +0000

According to sites all over the internet Kylie Minogue plans to adopt a “aborigine orphan” from Australia. How about we be politically correct and say something like, oh, I don’t know…a child?

In our culture would this be like saying she was adopting a black orphan?

Just wondering.

At least some people got it right. Kudos for using the term underprivileged instead of the aforementioned terms.

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Kylie Minogue Plans to Adopt