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Being an adoptee

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Being an adoptee

The adoption paradox

A child of four or five sits colouring at a low table. Memory can be tricky: the image is dim and rather unstable. But I know that the child is me, and that she’s been caught showing off by her grandmother, who is looking after her. (Where are the parents? I don’t know.) ‘I’m going to show my mummy and daddy,’ says the little girl, about her picture. They’re not your mummy and daddy,’ says the old woman on the sofa, witchily. ‘You have a real mummy and daddy somewhere else.’ ….[READ]

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