Adoption Opens a Parent's Heart, Makes Love Blind to Ethnicity

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Scott Simon -- the sonorous voice of NPR's "Weekend Edition" -- has written a short, tender book about the two most important people in the world. At least to him. "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other" recounts the arrival of his two daughters, Elise and Lina, from China, while telling the stories of other families changed by adoption.

Simon describes himself as skeptical of transcendence, but as taking part in a miracle. "My wife and I," he says, "knew that Elise and Lina were our babies from the moment we received their postage- stamp portraits. Logically, I know that's not possible. But I also know that's how my heart, mind and body ... reacted to their pictures. ... I would take the photo out of my wallet in the weeks before we left to get each of our girls and hold it against my lips to whisper, 'We're coming, baby.'"

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Adoption Opens a Parent's Heart, Makes Love Blind to Ethnicity

It is an unexpected form of human affection -- meeting an unrelated stranger and, within moments, being willing to care for them, even to die for them. The relationship results from a ...

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