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		<title>The Circle of Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Friends! Sorry for the long delay between my last post and this one, honestly I have been swamped at &#8220;my day job&#8221; and I haven&#8217;t really had a ton of adoption news to share, but I have a little&#8230; A couple of weeks ago the Pastor from my old church called me. He works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Calm after the Storm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the papers signed and me on the mend there was no place to go but home, that afternoon Dr.A signed my discharge papers. I was given some prescriptions and some instructions (things to keep my eye out for to help me determine if I needed to seek medical attention or if it was normal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hardest Good Bye</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard it said that women quickly forget the pain of childbirth, it&#8217;s what allows them to have more children. They are able to focus only the joys of the baby being placed in their arms, each perfect tiny finger, each tiny toe, and the sweet curve of tiny little eye lashes. I&#8217;ve found that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I felt a little bit like I was having an out of body experience in those first few moments after Beth and John arrived. They were holding Michael, looking at him, falling in love with him and my Mom and Ruth were telling the story of his arrival, the parts that they had missed. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He&#8217;s Here!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my Mom arrived to pick me up I notice that she seemed pretty keyed up, even more than I would have expected. I was in the car for about fifteen minutes when I learned why. I had cousins in town (remember we had agreed to keep this pregnancy quiet so that my cousins struggling [...]]]></description>
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