So this is the second Mother’s Day since I began blogging about adoption. I’ve already said pretty much everything I needed to say in last year’s, Mothers’ Day and my day Since I first wrote that piece, it’s been another year of ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same.’ May 10th, 2009 […]
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Having not one, but (at least) two, this is their day. (It’s also just another Sunday.) But it’s more than that. I wrote yesterday about how today is all too often painful for many different kinds of Mothers for many different reasons. What I didn’t mention though, are a particular subset of (Original) Mothers, those […]
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