![]() ![]() I want to see what’s actually different - the architecture, the art, the traffic.” “Maybe it’s more just about knowing where a person comes from - understanding what it looks like, what it tastes like, what it smells like. She says the best-case scenario for her for the trip is that it will offer some degree of closure. Piper says she hopes the trip will allow her to erase some stereotypes and/or understand others. Those DNA databanks already exist and have successfully matched adopted children with their biological families - sometimes parents, sometimes other children who have been adopted in other places, sometimes cousins. Years ago, I predicted that they would at some point they would have DNA banks in China that attempt to match children who were adopted internationally with their biological parents. ![]() We’ve known since we first met Piper that we would one day do our best to take her back to visit the country of her birth. She and I are going back to China for her to visit her homeland and learn more about its places and people. Her gift will be a trip that we’ve been discussing most of her life. We’ve decided to have a small party for her in January - and she’ll actually get her birthday present later in 2019. Try as we may, her dad and I still find it nearly impossible to make the same hoopla over her birthday as we do for other family non-Christmas birthdays. Over the Christmas break, our younger daughter, Piper, celebrated her 17th birthday.
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