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My Great-Grandmother: Helen
After finishing the posts about My Adoption Life, I’ve been taking a few days to re-group. Doing family history is my hobby. Until “My Adoption Life” book is published I’m going to write about my family history research. If you would be willing to read the finished manuscript, please leave a comment on my Facebook […]
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Adoptions of the Furry Kind – Post 2 of 2!
Because of my daughter Kara’s issues in 1984, we had to move into an apartment. We kept Kara’s cat K.C. because the therapist said we needed to do that. The thing that saddened me the most was that I had to give Kentucky to the Humane Society because I could no longer have 2 cats. […]
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The Final Chapter of My Adoption Life Almost!
My adoption agency, Adopt an Angel, Inc. began in 1997 and I placed our last child in late 2006. The agency closed permanently in 2007 due to a lack of adopting clients for over 4 months. My former clients were really distressed about us closing. I didn’t want to close, but no clients meant no […]
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Adoptions of the Furry Kind – Post 1 of 2!
I’m taking a break from my regular posts on child adoptions. I thought talking about my four-legged family members would be a break from being serious all the time. My first memory of a pet goes waaaay back to when I was 4 years old. I was a bit of a loner as a child […]
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Foster Care Trauma and Adoptions
On a prior post, I said I’d do one on the foster care system at a later date. Well, this is that later date. For the last 11 years I’ve been the social worker with Wasatch International Adoptions’ Second Chance program. What does Second Chance do? We do secondary placements of international and domestic foster […]
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ADOPT AN ANGEL: MY DREAM COME TRUE
My dream to begin my own adoption agency was realized in 1997, with my first placement in 1998. I started thinking about it while still in grad school. That it really happened is a small miracle to me. In late 1996, my uncle in Pomona, California died. My aunt’s family called me and asked if […]
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Evolution of Christmas Traditions in My Life
For first time visitors to this blog, my name is Ann Lamphere, this is my story. I’m the adoptive parent of Kara Kay Lamphere Sansing. I’m also an adoption social worker and have been the director of an adoption agency. Christmas Break Today, I’m taking a break from My Adoption Story. It is 6 days until […]
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My Improbable Life Change Moment
Most stories have beginnings and endings. Some are good and some are bad. This story, my story, took a long time to begin. My life was simple, stable and with nothing exciting happening until the winter of 1976. I was 34 years old, single, and never married, even though I had had some offers, nothing […]