Yes sir, I did, and yes sir, that's my little girl. I'll go so far as to say that even though I wasn't there in body when she was made, I was surely there in spirit.
Adopting her was the best decision I've ever made in my life. Being a father is the best, most challenging, most rewarding thing that I've ever done.
What I am saying is that I didn't have this thrust upon me. I CHOSE this. I think that makes my perspective a little different. I love her, dearly. IF I didn't have her in my life, I don't know that I would come through that a whole person, if at all.
Some children are planned. Some children are unplanned. And SOME children enter your heart through nothing more than sheer force of love. She's the third kind.
To put it another way: there is no one as zealous as a convert.
