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What Ted Kennedy Taught Me
This story got to me the most -- the knowledge that every week, Ted Kennedy spent time with his reading buddy, Larenai Swann. Larenai could be my own daughter sitting there with the "lion of the...
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HER BFF
A. is an aggressive friend-finder!This is just week two of kindergarten and she already has a "best friend." Mind you, it's not the little girl she played with all summer and whom we requested be in...
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AMERICAN GIRL
A. was so excited! She had her own ten dollars to spend at the school's book fair. Her teacher took the entire kindergarten class to the school's lobby and there each child got to choose whichever book...
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A Living Doll
Since A. has been asking for a Barbie doll, and I've been ignoring her request, I decided to get her this one for Christmas. Her name is Cecille and she has hair just like A.A. thinks she's okay.But...
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Haiti Earthquake Devastates Lives of Orphans - ABC News
Perhaps some of you who're still considering where to adopt from will choose Haiti.... When the walls of their suburban Port-au-Prince orphanage came crashing down, their caregivers counted their...
View ArticleOPEN LETTER SEEKING SUPPORT FOR HAITI
Friends: There are ways that your donation, no matter how small, can have a big impact. They are not via the huge bureaucracies, but via the foundations who have long histories of accompanying,...
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Tips For The Mother Frustrated By Her Ethiopian Daughter's Hair
THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM A LIFETIME OF BLACK HAIR CARE AND A YEAR OF HAIR CARE ON A LITTLE TENDER-HEADED GIRL:1. Don't use a comb. Use a wire-bristle brush. (combs really hurt, believe me); hold her...
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So What Was It?
Were those Americans who tried to take Haitian children out of the country abducting them or adopting them?I'd say it was both.Every international adoption is fundamentally abduction. The child adopts...
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TWIN FEELINGS
This New York Times article about Haiti's struggling orphanages is an eye-opener. It explains a lot about the daily challenges of caring for orphans in an impoverished country. This quote from a...
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A BROWN SISTER FOR ZAHARA
While sitting in a doctor's office, I read in one of those celebrity magazines that Angelina Jolie has decided to adopt a seventh child, from Africa, because Zahara said she wants a little sister who...
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