For National Adoption Month, November 2021 I thought I would share with all of you my extremely rare, but beautiful adoption story.
I was placed in foster care when I was 4 months old due to severe physical abuse that left me with hydrocephalus, fractured ribs and a broken eye socket.
I was fortunate to be placed in the home of a Dutch-American immigrant couple and their adult daughter. My parents first tried to adopt me when I was an infant because they could see that for me efforts at reunification were not going to work.
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