Tag: orphans

The Rusty Chain

Posted on May 3, 2016 by

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Not everything about abandonment is sad. Take this beefy blue bike, for instance. One person might figure Beefy Blue was junked, its chain too rusty for locomotion. Another might see the same old bike as an opportunity to sail down the street with a loaf of bread… Continue Reading “The Rusty Chain”

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Lemons

Posted on July 16, 2012 by

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This is one of those blog posts that’s going to get me scolded either by members of my own family or by the dreamy adoption people who believe that God personally selected the child they adopted.  I don’t care because the truth of the… Continue Reading “Lemons”

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