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Today’s (almost) the Day

Published on April 8, 2010 By spyderkl

8 years ago today, we met School Girl for the first time. We also meet her other father for the first time that day, and her foster family who had been taking care of her for the previous 6 weeks since she had been out of the hospital. I’ve got a lot of thoughts about [...]

8 years

Published on September 11, 2009 By spyderkl

I’ve written about this date before. I know I’ve written about it once or twice in the past 8 years. Those are the posts that I’ve allowed to remain on this site. There’s a reason for that. September 11, 2001 is the birth date of my nieces, my sister’s twin daughters. The horror of what [...]

When we got the call

Published on March 10, 2009 By spyderkl

I’ve already written about that day before. However, today is the anniversary… Just about two weeks after School Girl was born, we got The Call from our social worker. There was a baby girl, in a town not far from us (well, far enough from us). She had been placed, by her parents’ request, in [...]