Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

She is like a mathematical equation, always there and impossible to disprove.

I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive...I had no idea that you could like your parents or that they could love you enough to let you be yourself.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.