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Vignettes from some of Kinship Center's adopted children

"We are sisters! Our names are Jessie and Amanda, ages 5 and 7. Before Kinship Center helped us to find our adopted family we were in different foster homes and could not see each other. Now we share the same room, play together and sometimes argue. We are happy - we are sisters!"

"My name is Emmanuel and I am six years old. I was born drug addicted and was a very sick baby. My parents adopted me at Kinship Center when I was six months old. I don't remember any of those hard times, but my parents made sure that I got all of the help I needed to be a normal boy. I am having a hard time learning to read, but am making progress in my special class. I have all the love that any child could dream of and I am in every way a busy, playful, normal boy."

"Looking back, I was adopted when I was 18, and became "official" after five years living in my Kinship Center foster home. The early years were tough, I know I drove Carol and Ned crazy…I pushed them away, broke the rules, lied more than I told the truth. They hung in with me, and waited for me to love them back, gave me room to be my own person and still be their child. I love drawing, and they made sure I had all the best lessons with Kinship's support…one of the best days I will know was presenting a pen and ink portrait of Joe Montana to the man himself….he has it hanging in his workout room."