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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 12:00 AM

Open adoption, broken heart

I knew it would be hard for my daughter's birth mother to give her up. I just didn't expect to feel so guilty for taking her.
By Dawn Friedman

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  • Thursday, March 9, 2006 02:12 PM

    Madison and Jessica

    A touching, sweet, generous essay. Maidson is a lucky child to have two women who want mroe than anything for her to have a wonderful life, even f they must apy a price for it.

    It sounds as though Jessica has almost become part of the family. Extended families are actually the evolutionary norm for human beings, and Madison will benefit from having Jessica in her life as well as the mother she no has.

    If I had ever adopted a baby, this is the sort of relationship I would have wanted to ahve with her birth family.

    —Tina Blue

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