I know we had the same thing here in the US too. “We’re SAVING them from their heathen lifestyles and helping them from being stuck on those reservations that we set up when we gave up just openly trying to kill them.”
From what other people are saying, she was not deaf at birth, but rather became deaf after developing the measles while she was in foster care a few years later.
Maybe if she didn’t, this story will give her a means of finding her baby? I have no high hopes either, but I like to be obnoxiously optimistic.
Go your mom.
My brother works with Ethiopian immigrants and a bunch of children who were adopted from Ethiopia come to the center to learn more about their heritage. It is amazing the number of these now adults who go back to Ethiopia to explore where they’re from and finding out that they were adopted without consent of their…
What the fucking shit! Everything about that story horrifies me. You’re right that there might have been a mix up, but seriously, if you take a kid to have treatment, don’t you have to tell their parent? Like, just standard “hey don’t loose a fucking baby” protocol? Your mom’s poor friend too. Jesus.
I just imagine returning home to her palace with her son and support system (husband, nannies, they probably have cooks, plus her parents, and whoever else is helping) is much more comfortable than any hospital. I’d totally be all “yes get me pretty for the 10 minutes I have to do the princess thing” if I could go…
I can see that too.
I kinda can’t help but wonder if it was a “well, foster care is better than having a young poor black mother” busybody asshole. Like someone made a judgement that “this woman won’t be a good mother” and passed a kid on to foster care.
Of course!
I knew Alice was a common Princess name, but didn’t realize it was making a comeback otherwise. I bet that’s why it’s so high on the probability list.
Elizabeth will almost certainly be a middle name too. Some variation of Alice Alexandra Victoria Elizabeth is my bet. I dunno why bookies have Alice as such a likelihood, but they do.
Welp, duh, don’t you know that Prince shows up randomly for births? He’s like the stork, only better, because he’s Prince.
I had the same thought, but then, it is Charles, he is good at inserting his foot into his mouth, so maybe he was just being honest and hoping for a granddaughter.
My friend had the same thing happen. We had a little funeral for him (ok, we were in high school and weird). She had cats, so we assumed that he had made a nice meal. She waited a few months and then got a new hamster. A month or so later, boom he reappears and we throw him a welcome home party (again... weird).…
If you haven’t- I recommend reading Connie Willis’s Blackout/All Clear. The basic premise is time travelers going to WWII, surviving the Blitz, Dunkirk, and some other events in England, but one of them is obsessed with getting to VE day. When it is described in the book, you can just feel how joyful it must have been…
Oh, no I still prefer the same styles of beers I did in collage, which is basically not hoppy. Minimal hops. So my taste buds haven’t changed that much.
Me too! I thought my tastebuds had changed because I had been drinking local brews and Blue Moon was my college beer of choice.
Elder Bush’s is in College Station and Younger Bush’s is in Dallas. W’s is supposed to be pretty fantastic actually.