November is the month when we celebrate the gift of love through adoption. As an adoptive mother, I cannot begin to express the joy I have found through my beautiful son, Christopher, adopted in 1992. I was 40 when his adoption became final.

Some potential adoptive parents fear that finding a child is impossible for them due to lack of funds, available children, or because of their age. Subsequently, they are concerned that they will never experience the happiness of parenting a child. But you can find love through adoption, and through Special Needs Adoption, you can find a deep and satisfying parent/child relationship with the added knowledge that you are helping a child who is desperately waiting for a home, is in great need of an advocate…is urgently waiting….for  love.

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Since its 1976 proclamation as National Adoption Month in Massachusetts, November has remained a part of our National tradition as a time to celebrate the gift of love.  A little over seventeen years ago, such a gift was given to me when my seven-day-old son was placed in my arms.

As I gazed into the face of my baby, I could not have envisioned that a mere twelve hours later, I would fall completely, irrevocably in love.  I could not have comprehended that this "Son of My Soul," would capture my heart completely and forever hold it captive. Imagine my surprise at the reaction of some of the people I came into contact with, and the main question I was asked: "Do you ever wish you had a child of your own?"  

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