Saturday, January 24, 2004

Local Stories

Adoption doesn't end on the return to America: Many people have stopped my husband, Eric, and me as we shop, eat and travel throughout Snohomish County: in Costco, at the post office, during breakfast at our favorite place in Marysville. Everyone has been warm and kind. We're getting used to the fact that it's not our magnetic personalities that people are interested in. It's the baby.

Newburgh family celebrates by remembering heritage: Myranda Moye, 7, leads a visitor to the curio cabinet in the music room of her parents' Newburgh home where three delicate ceramic statues represent young women from the Chinese provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi and Guangdong. Each is a symbol of where Myranda and her two sisters, Lyndsay, 5, and Kylee, 17 months, were born.


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