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From Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Joy of Adoption
By Audrey Perrott

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
~Frederick Buechner

My husband Brad and I both grew up in families built through adoption. My father and aunt were both adopted, and Brad has four aunts adopted from Korea as well as a biological aunt who adopted four children from one family. We always talked about adopting as a way of growing our family, but it wasn’t until we experienced difficulty having a biological child that we began discussing our options.

After fifteen months of trying to have a baby, and only one doctor visit away from starting fertility treatments, we finally got a positive pregnancy test. Nine months later we welcomed home our son Sebastian. (Keep reading)