[AT] OT: Smith baby

[jvhollon]

I would hope the first thing they tell the Smith baby is,   uh, you're a 
girl!  Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dudley Rupert" <drupert at premier1.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:22 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] OT: Smith baby


> Ed,
>
> I am sure many adoptive parents of young children have pondered that
> question but hoped they'd never have to answer it.
>
> My daughter, who turned thirty-five last week, was eight months old when 
> we
> adopted her.  She was abandoned at birth (she was probably no more than a
> few hours old) on the steps of an orphanage in Inchon.  God only knows who
> her biological mother (undoubtly a Korean) and father (maybe a Korean or
> just as likely an American military man) were.  The subject of her
> birthing/natural parents has surfaced at most maybe a handful of times but
> she has always been content to just look at me and say "but you are my 
> daddy
> and I love you and that's all that matters."
>
> I hope a loving home finds this boy ... he deserves at least that.
>
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of Edward Tabor
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:23 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Smith baby
>
> I feel bad for the kid as well.  When he grows up, what will the
> adoptive parents tell him???
>
>
> Ed
>
>
>
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