Natural Child: Any child who is not artificial.
Real Parent: Any parent who is not imaginary.
Your Own Child: Any child who is not someone else's child.
Adopted Child: A natural child, with a real parent, who is all my own.
--- Rita Laws, PhD
(AC with LE at a fire station birthday...Happy birthday, ELI!!)
I loved this!!! I can't tell you how often I get the comments "Are they REALLY sisters?" "Is she yours?", "Are you her REAL mother?", etc. Some people are a little slow (understatement of the year) in figuring out the whole adoption thing so this made perfect sense to me.
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