Adoption Stories
We didn't see any cranberry marshes in Bogot�, but in this picture Annabelle describes her experiences as an adoptee, while Patricia, one of the executives of CRAN, translates into Spanish. Annabelle tells, if I may paraphrase, how adoption is a triangle, with adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents each forming one of the legs, formed by God's creative spirit. (I shamelessy swiped this for my Sunday School lesson for last week for 17 Pentecost. And hey, my cirriculum book even suggested talking about international adoption along with creation.)
We also heard stories from birth parents and adoptive parents. It was an extraordinarily emotional session.
Two more adoptees shared their stories as well. Marisa, left, grew up in the USA and she actually gave her testimonial in Spanish while Patricia translated back into English. She and her brother Mike, who is also adopted from Colombia, are working on a documentary. The woman on the right grew up in the Netherlands, I wish I could remember her name just now.
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It's a small world, after all. I am Marisa on the far left in the second photograph. I'm glad that you can share our stories with a wide audience. Although I think of Mike as brother, in fact we are friends who met through our mothers who have both worked in adoption for many years, and decided to do this documentary together. It was an amazing experience and I hope that everyone has good memories from that day and throughout the celebration. Also, the other young woman adopted through CRAN from Holand is named Efie but everyone was calling her Eva in Spanish. Marisa
Posted by: Marisa Casey | January 23, 2004 03:44 PM