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  • Started by Julie Ryan McGue
    ...d the gift of a child–a child who was born in unseemly circumstances, but who was welcomed and acknowledged by kings and centuries of people. The adopted child/adult, however content...
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  • Last reply by Liberty J. Freedom
    Hello. For some time now I seem to have adopted the following expressions into my vocabulary. I'm speaking of "ha" and "chop chop."   As non English speaker I'm unsure of where they c...
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  • ...years before moving to Florida three yrs ago. I currently live in St. Petersburg, enamored with palm trees and sea birds. The South's definitely adopted me. ...

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  • Julie Ryan McGue posted a status
    ...tated. Once the tears dried up, I was angry, and then the sadness returned. The yearning I had about learning where I had come from and why I was adopted, had evaporated. I was in a...
  • Donna Bryson posted a status
    ...ve agency and no need of Huck. Cedar may be both Huck and Jim. But she’s no orphan: She has, if anything, too many parents. Minneapolis liberals adopted her and gave her that poetic...
  • Donna Bryson posted a status
    ...gency and no need of Huck. Perhaps Cedar is both Huck and Jim. But she’s no orphan: She has, if anything, too many parents. Minneapolis liberals adopted her and gave her that poetic...

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  • ...m shoot as well as I do or have the criminal justice background that I do, but I'm going with a pseudonym anyway.  Sort of. I was adopted so I'm going to move my adopted last name, Taylor, use it as...
  • ...me separate from my writing. I like that a whole lot, a big blessing in disguise, even if I didn't chose a pen name for that reason. The name was adopted for me because my real name w...
  • ...sistant outpatient treatment law (Laura's Law in CA) would be that game-changer, but it wasn't made mandatory, so only a handful of counties have adopted./ I wholeheartedly agree: If...