I was forty-five years old when I heard someone call me «Dad» for the very first time. It wasn’t from a child who looked like me or shared my family name. It came from a quiet little girl who had spent the first years of her life wondering whether anyone would ever choose to keep her.
My wife, Laura, and I had dreamed about becoming parents for years. We went through countless doctor’s appointments, heartbreaking disappointments, and moments when
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