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Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.DaShanne Stokes
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People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.DaShanne Stokes
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Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.DaShanne Stokes
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Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.DaShanne Stokes
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Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.DaShanne Stokes
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Our country is poor but our hearts are richAdele Rickerby
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What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.Steve Pemberton
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Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.Jody Cantrell Dyer
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Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.DaShanne Stokes
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What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.DaShanne Stokes
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Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.DaShanne Stokes
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It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.DaShanne Stokes
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Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.Kelly DiBenedetto
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I love them both as though I birthed them both, but also as though I adopted them both.Natalie Brenner
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Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.DaShanne Stokes
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If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?DaShanne Stokes