Wednesday, July 20, 2005

The Matching Room


This is where it all happens - the matching room. 8 or so Chinese administrators from the CCAA pour through stacks and stacks of files, containing the life stories of each adopting family, to match you with the "perfect" baby. We poured our hearts out to our wonderfully empathetic social worker for 3 months, filled out numerous forms and voila, we had a file. Inside are dark details of our finances, childhood experiences (both good & bad), past marriages and other skeletons in the closet. Hey, is that our file on top? Hard to tell since it's been translated into Chinese.

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