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The day we met him

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                                         Photo Courtesy: http://www.abc.net.au When we got the news from our adoption agency about our baby boy, it was unbelievable for us to know that we are being offered a baby in the city that I come from.  In our waiting time we were told that the baby could be offered from any part of India.  In that case we might have to deal with regional language difference.  The child may not understand the regional language the parents talk if the parents are from a different state.  We were getting ourselves prepared to deal with that situation.  But fortunately we were offered a baby from the state that I and my husband come from.   Oh boy, what a trip it was for us... My family did warn me saying that the time we were planning to come is not the best, as there were cyclone forecasts made right at the time we were planning to be there. We did our best to call and explain the weather forecast warnings to the international adoption agency here.  We
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6 months since we adopted our baby

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Its already been half a year since we adopted our little baby boy.  He is 16 months old now. Its difficult to believe it, but here we are, feeling as though the clock has decided to run at double the speed.  This reminds us that time is a relative concept.                                       Photo Courtesy: http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com From the day we decided to apply for adoption to this day where we have him in hand, it has taken almost 6 years.  It was a long waiting game for us, several things went wrong in between, we quiet often had to lead our life in uncertainty of whether this will come true for us or not.  This waiting time has put us in spots where we had to consider whether to stay where we have been living and working for more than a decade, whether to forego the opportunities we had to live and work in other countries that we wanted to experience, whether to hold life on a temporary basis or to settle down in the city we are currently living in.  The un
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