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July 14, 2008

"She Just Deserves Extra Love"

Take me pointing to this article as proof that we don't need universal healthcare and the less-well-known fact that I do, indeed, have a heart.

When she was just 2 weeks old, Emma Grace lay on an operating table, scrawny arms and legs spread out, tiny body dwarfed by the giant room full of steel and high-tech gadgetry. Her chest was raised so a surgeon could get to her faulty heart.

No feet were pacing outside on her account, no eyes darting for updates.

Before she learned how to smile or hold a gaze, Emma was given up twice — by her 23-year-old birth mother, a drug-user, smoker and drinker who knew she could never care for the baby, and by a 48-year-old adoptive mother who backed out when she learned of Emma's heart condition and of her own pregnancy by in-vitro fertilization.

Don't worry, it has a happy ending.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at 04:08 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 That really got to me. I'm adopted. And I'm adopted after having been abandoned at the hospital, I was there for 6 weeks before they placed me with my parents. So I do know what it's like to know both that you were given up and then joyfully taken in as a gift from God. That little girl will be so blessed because she will always know that she was wanted more than anything else in the world.

Posted by: alexthechick at July 14, 2008 04:24 PM (GknYa)

There were several moments in that story where I just about lost it but what got me most was loving the child in preparation for a surgery with nobody in the waiting room.

I don't think I can imagine a more terrible thought, especially with the luck I've had. My daughter is so healthy and vibrant but if she were in the hospital you couldn't drag me away with a train.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at July 14, 2008 04:30 PM (83gRI)

3 A longtime friend of the family and his wife adopted a while ago, it's a great thing to do if you can, particularly for those who wish to start a family but can't.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at July 14, 2008 04:41 PM (BIe/L)

4 Alex, like my youngest brother who was adopted when i was 39!, now he is 18, you were CHOSEN

good wishes

Posted by: wpdunn71901 at July 15, 2008 09:54 AM (uqA0i)

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