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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still in shock, a bit, that I've found my birth mother!  She lives overseas and when we meet for the first time, I'd like to bring a gift.  Gift-giving is big in her culture and I know other adoptees who've run afoul of customs with their gifts.  Any ideas for an appropriate gift? The reason I was placed for adoption was poverty and while I've been told she's ok now, I want to make sure whatever I give is not too much but not too little.  I'm definitely going to make a photo album for her, but am looking for other things as well.  I also have three brothers and am told at least three nieces and nephews- what for them as well?[/quote]

Please don't romanticize this too much -- it scares people from wanting to adopt.[/quote]

Huh?  OP's priorities right now should be her feelings, her birth mother's feelings and those of both families, not some random people wanting to adopt.  How selfish to even suggest so.

There is a long waiting list of people adopting from Korea, perhaps it would be a good thing if people who are scared of birth parent contact withdraw from the process.[/quote]

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