"But Mom my hands are white"
Last night Avery and I were snuggled up as she was reading several books about her favorite president, Abraham Lincoln. This particular book emphasized the slave trade and brought up the issue of how slave families were ripped apart. Through that concept Avery’s mind began to wander and our conversation quickly turned to her adoption and her ethnicity. She had questions about her birth mother and birth father, many that we couldn’t answer because we know so little. I asked he
