Adopted Teens to Speak About Transracial Adoption November 28, 2007

Members of a local support group for adopted teens will share their perspectives about growing up adopted and their advice to adoptive parents on Wednesday, November 28, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Falmouth Library, 5 Lunt Road in Falmouth. The cost is $5.00 per person. One of the group members compared her experience to a pear sprout that is clipped from its roots and grafted onto an apple tree. “Despite being a pear, I grew up as an apple,” she wrote. “Today, everything about me is apple except my looks, for which I am constantly reminded by the stares of passersby that inaudibly but obviously ask, ‘Why is there a pear in the apple tree?’” The teens have created their own list of “Tips for Parents” in adoptive families.

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