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AmngsiacOng
ip THINGS HAD BEEN DIFFERENT, 17D BE catLED
‘Nauliya or Nasashs, and 1 have a Russian accent and chapped lips
year ound. Maybe Il even be a street kid whold trade you just abou
‘anything for a pair of blue jeans. Bur I am not Nasaliya or Nata
because at sic months old T was delivered from Kratovo, Masco
Oblast 10 Brooklyn, New York. I don't remember the ttip of eve:
having lived in Russia at all. What I know about my oxphanhood i
limited to what I've been told by my patents and then by what chey
ere told, which was sketchy at best: a week-old baby giel was found
in an empry typewriter case in the second-ro-last pew of an Eastern
Onthodox Church, Was che case a elute to my biologieal facher’s pro-
fsion? Did the church mean my birch mother was devout? I'l never
‘now t0 1 choose nor to speculate. Besides, I hate orphan stores.
Thoyreall the same, bu most books are bursting wich them aay
You sat t think everyone in the whole world must be an orphan.ew remember 8 done when J diet know 1 way
‘here war nner deamatie “Wwe have something tll you
rn dp another Bt, ke ng de hy
so ae
Tee I knew 1 nas adopted even before I anew woe thay ean
. truly
resne Undesanding adoption russ 2 basic wnrstaning of
eepmetking I ould not have until died grade when Gina pe
iis bowgt er zandpucne disurbingly dog eared copy gp
Te feof So seo She posed He around a kine and eit
ros everyone ese wat ging with che eliza
Ind done see to make thow (80 much hat, and the people in the
that thei,
arents
Goings we ot ne toils 1 le pete Bs sen
coma ng be doped but at est my pares adit dia
es ke tht or mys
ouke probably wondering why they didet do-it the old-
eine ag No tha ik any of your busines, bu they ted fora
ie wibou geting anywhere. Afr about a yea Mom and Dad
esl cht hr than invest about a billon dolls on Fetiity
eounts thst might noe work anyway, ie would be better to spend
the mene helping some seb cory ike me. This is why you are not,
the very moment, holding ia your hands hy
ring trve ac