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YOUNG HEARTS…

I CAN’T REMEMBER the exact moment I was adopted. I didn’t sign any paperwork, nor was there ceremony or fanfare. And, because my birth parents are still very much alive, and I actually quite like them, I’m pretty sure it might have broken a handful of laws and could have me disowned one day too.



Over the following week , I listened to and learned from more than 400 collective years of wisdom.

It started as a blatant act of pity; a mercy-adoption,

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