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We are thankful for you, your name will always be respected in our home, and your sacrifice will be honored.

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The first assumption most people make when stating this is that I am unable to have children of my own or that such feat would prove difficult. As if adoption is only conceivable as a last resort situation; you adopt because you were given the shorter end of the stick and you’re making the best of it.

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I remember often asking about my mother. Along with all of my other uncertainties, there was the lingering question of why I could never see her. I always got the same answer, “You’re too young to understand, Luke.”