<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">My mother was pregnant.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">But not with me.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I'm her only child.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Sometimes I wonder why as a single woman she could want to raise someone else's child.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Then I quickly think of something else because I know how my life could have been.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">The thought scares me.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Every year even before Thanksgiving, I'm thankful.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Thankful I'm her child.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">And I am reminded when I receive pitches stating November is <a href="http://adoption.about.com/od/adopting/a/allaboutnam.htm">National Adoption Month</a> that someone else instead of my birth parents was able to give me a better life.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Reminded I'm lucky.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Maybe one day I'll follow in her footsteps and take care of a child who needs a better life.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">For right now, I'm happy my children get to call her Nana.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine'. - <strong>Sophia Loren</strong>
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