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if Se. QMONS of 9 ED er lEs ; Amngsiac Ong 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

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