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• ‟ By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

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• ‟ It is true for my family and many others: Adoption has made us infinitely richer in the ways that matter most.

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• ‟ Contemporary families can be made in many ways. You might step up when relatives or friends are unable to meet their obligation to their children. You might marry someone who is already a parent. Or you might, as in my case, yearn to create a family and decide to adopt.

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• ‟ When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased.

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• ‟ I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New York State said we could. From the outside, our family - two dads, two sons via adoption - seems like an experiment, but what family isn't an experiment?

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• ‟ I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made.

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• ‟ Family is whatever you say it is.

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• ‟ Does a bona fide chimichurri have cilantro in it? Who cares? Cooking for your family, unless your family includes Joel Rubouchon, is liberating in that regard.

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• ‟ Obama-as-dad is my favorite Obama. Obama-as-executive, with his stubborn faith in reasonableness in times absent of reason, presided over the country during its descent into madness. I find it a comfort that Obama-as-dad presided over a family that leaves the White House healthy and happy.

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