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The road not travelled
It haunts all of us. Personally, I respect your choice. Being willing to care for a special needs child is admirable, but it can be a challenge ever for the child's biological parents, and it is not something to be taken on lightly. The baby in India should not have ever been presented to you as an option, given that she was outside of all of the parameters you had defined in your adoption goals. The real tragedy is that they waited so long to find her a home - if she had been placed sooner she might have had a better life. That, however, is not your fault or your problem.