http://www.colage.org/advocacy/board-member-paul-perrys-adoption-story/ Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.colage.org/advocacy/board-member-paul-perrys-adoption-story/#comment-168 Family Equality Council Blog - An Adoption Story Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:10:19 +0000 http://www.colage.org/?p=1083#comment-168 [...] After all, I was already a very unlikely child. Born to a drug-addicted mother who was pregnant with me while she was in prison, I was saved by her inability to feed her addiction behind bars. She had already been through five abortions and the doctors did not think her womb could support life. But I was a “fighting fetus.” I was determined to get born! Once I was, I was adopted by my father and his partner. Their families shunned me initially because of my race and difficult background. My father thought about how—with a story like that—I had enough challenges in store for me, and he did not want me to have to answer for his sexuality too. Deep down though, the pit in his stomach told him that it was inevitable. To read more, click here. [...]

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