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jrittenhouse

Gotcha Day #8, part 2:

Sep 21, 2008 23:04

More excerpts from the journal, this time from the day we actually adopted Meredith (the day after we got her). Again, see some pictures of the day on Flickr - the picture below is something the Jiangmen paper later got out of the files of the orphanage when the paper was running that stupid ‘Dick the Wonder Sheep’ story about the twins in the ( Read more... )

sisterfar, jiangmen, china, immigration, parenting, family, conniej, meredith, guangzhou, orphans, jackie, twins, susan, adoption

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amysuemom September 22 2008, 12:38:18 UTC

Amazing how quickly time flies. Mere will be grateful for all the information you do have about her ( and probably is already). Em and Noah accept that we have no info on them and actually feel a little sorry for me because in their case they no 100% their ethnicity and I (also an adoptee) have no clue.

jrittenhouse September 22 2008, 16:47:50 UTC

Yeah. The only clue we have on medical stuff, to a certain degree, is that if something sets off Sissy, it will probably set off Mere. Not *always*, but almost so.

jrittenhouse September 22 2008, 16:59:22 UTC

In my case, I doubt people could guess my ethnicity, in any event. I'm mostly descended from people in Westphalia, the Ruhr, and the border regions in the old 'Lotharingia' area of Central Europe.

See:
http://www.keesn.nl/vlaard/text_en.htm for a Lotharingia map...

I've been mistaken for part-African, Jewish, you name it.