Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted, and what it all means for families like theirs, with feet in two worlds. When Laurie Stern set out to adopt a baby from Guatemala in 1999, she thought the process would be pretty straightforward. Lots of people were doing it. But the adoption was held up just as she went to Guatemala to g ...
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A Disease or a Blessing?
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I woke up that morning feeling quite uncomfortable🤦, I had to prepare for school too🤔.So, I tuned down uncomfortable feeling and started getting prepared because Benjamin, the school driver, will be here soon blaring the honks like he wants to tear the world apart🙀🙀. Straight off bed, I ran to the bathroom, had a quick bath,brushed my teeth and just as I was about entering my room back I stopped. It was a churning pain but it was just for a slit second ,😑 I must be hungry already, so just like flash, I hurriedly got dressed and soon l had eaten and was just in time to hear Benjamin with his honks,🙅 the old man is always impatient. I keep wondering if he has an appointment to pick with Jesus since I was the last he picks everyday plus the fact that my house was just 20mins drive to the school. Swiftly I was at my regular spot in the school bus.My seat doesn't change except someone was dropped by Benjamin for not meeting the time or missed school completely. Then the pain came again, the churning, but I have eaten so I asked myself "Deb are you fine?" No that wasn't me asking myself, it was Jameson. He is my best friend, we are both ten and in the same class.I looked at him and told him "yes I just think I have a stomach upset". Twenty minutes up we are at the school gate of "The Amiable International school" and just as Benjamin opened the bus I carefully came down to begin my catwalk because the sight I see first when I am in the school compound every school day is Damon's, he is my crush but my catwalk is short lived as I heard Jameson's scream of "Deb"only he calls me that so I knew right away that it was him and the next thing I heard was "You hurt your butt !" gosh what a public scene, everyone was around me straight away and just then it felt like a gush of water from my stomach 😭😭😭😭....What a humiliating disease!😭😭😭 I just want to drop dead now.
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I woke up that morning feeling quite uncomfortable🤦, I had to prepare for school too🤔.So, I tuned down uncomfortable feeling and started getting prepared because Benjamin, the school driver, will be here soon blaring the honks like he wants to tear the world apart🙀🙀. Straight off bed, I ran to the bathroom, had a quick bath,brushed my teeth and just as I was about entering my room back I stopped. It was a churning pain but it was just for a slit second ,😑 I must be hungry already, so just like flash, I hurriedly got dressed and soon l had eaten and was just in time to hear Benjamin with his honks,🙅 the old man is always impatient. I keep wondering if he has an appointment to pick with Jesus since I was the last he picks everyday plus the fact that my house was just 20mins drive to the school. Swiftly I was at my regular spot in the school bus.My seat doesn't change except someone was dropped by Benjamin for not meeting the time or missed school completely. Then the pain came again, the churning, but I have eaten so I asked myself "Deb are you fine?" No that wasn't me asking myself, it was Jameson. He is my best friend, we are both ten and in the same class.I looked at him and told him "yes I just think I have a stomach upset". Twenty minutes up we are at the school gate of "The Amiable International school" and just as Benjamin opened the bus I carefully came down to begin my catwalk because the sight I see first when I am in the school compound every school day is Damon's, he is my crush but my catwalk is short lived as I heard Jameson's scream of "Deb"only he calls me that so I knew right away that it was him and the next thing I heard was "You hurt your butt !" gosh what a public scene, everyone was around me straight away and just then it felt like a gush of water from my stomach 😭😭😭😭....What a humiliating disease!😭😭😭 I just want to drop dead now.
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