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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I met a woman waiting for a train. I was with my daughter (who is adopted from another ethnicity, so it is sort of obvious). The woman gently asked if she was adopted. I said yes. She asked if she had been an orphan/lived in an orphanage before I got her. I said yes. She asked how old she was when she got adopted. I said 1. Then I asked how old she was when she got adopted. She said she was never adopted.

The silence hung in the air. I asked, "Well do you have a husband or children of your own now (she looked to be in her 30's)". She said "No."

I was not sure how to respond. The thought of going all through life with literally no family was just very hard for me to imagine.[/quote]
How did this change your life?[/quote]

It gave me insight into how some people have life so hard (i.e., it expanded my empathy).

And it gave me renewed appreciation from something precious that I possess, and had considered universal up to that conversation.

(Not that I have to script my response to your satisfaction.)[/quote]

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