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Against All Odds Again

by Fatherofeight

06 Mar 2007 11:00 AM

Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of Tommy's "gotcha day". Gotcha day is the term used in the adoption community to celebrate and remember the day that a child came to your home to stay.

Gotcha Day #2

by Fatherofeight

13 Dec 2006 11:03 PM

One month after our first "gotcha day", the phone rang and it was our state social worker. She was calling to say that Caleb's older brother, Tommy, was immediately available to be moved into our home as a foster child. Tommy had been in a therapeutic home because of his health.

A Child's Life in the Ghetto

by Fatherofeight

13 Dec 2006 11:52 AM

I have never been to the apartment complex where our boys used to live. I have the address and I plan to go there eventually. Our oldest is the only child who can really remember what life was like there. When he is older, we may go back and look around.

Hope for Our Children

by Fatherofeight

07 Dec 2006 10:28 PM

I had a critical illness when I was a baby. I had to have a tracheotomy; I see the scar in the mirror every morning. But the real problem was fever. It stayed too high day after day. This occurred in the late forties when the medicine available was not nearly as effective as it is today.



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