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Adoption Is So Close Yet So Far Away

22 Comments / Adoption / Jennie Mayes / January 11, 2020

Some day I will share the story of our entire adoption process, but that day is not today. I’m not quite ready to share all that yet. However, I am going to continue with my own Adoption Is… Series. You can read my first post in this series, Adoption Is Broken and Beautiful, here. Today […]

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Please Don’t Tell My Adopted Child They Are Lucky

18 Comments / Adoption / Jennie Mayes / October 10, 2021

Sometimes we have what’s called a “savior mentality” when it comes to adoption. We think that a wonderful loving family is saving this child from a terrible childhood without a family. We can have a tendency to think that a loving family takes away all the bad or hard things that may have happened in

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