Why I Hesitate
"What do you think about adoption?" I started getting this question when I was in college. It made sense; I was getting to the age that I had friends thinking about starting their own families, and anyone who knew my family (at all) knew that I had plenty of experience with adoptions. What? You don't think that we get mistaken for each other all the time? I love my siblings way more than I have words to say. Sometimes when I think about them I'm overcome with the thought that they could have so easily not been my siblings. That I could have not known them. (Which, I guess, is true of any human, more or less, but you catch my drift.) They are such an integral part of me that I'm really not sure who I'd be like without them. We really are our own tiny subculture, complete with one word jokes that can lead to minutes of laughter. ( Souffle?) But I hesitate when I get questioned what I think about adoption. Because there isn't an easy answer