Since my children are internationally adopted from Korean and look different from my husband and myself, I’m often asked whether or not there were any huge issues with that as they were growing up.
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Sometimes adopted children act out their fear and grief and some times they give it words. I was so glad that so often Brandon gave it words, because he became my guide into the feelings and fears of his siblings who were not expressing a great deal of what they were feeling. He gave me a really interesting lesson when the kids were in preschool.
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