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		<title>The surprise our new son sprung on us</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[When we adopted my son Nick, he was four and a half years old. He came out of a supremely difficult situation. His mother, my sister, went down the meth hole. She had been using the drug (and others) for years, decades, before she got pregnant. She also drank compulsively,&#8230;]]></description>
		
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