Twenty Families Rejected My Daughter Because of Her Diagnosis—Then I Signed the Adoption Papers in Under Four Minutes

he’d been the 20th family to say no to a baby girl.

“Twentieth,” he said.

“They actually told us the number. Like it was supposed to make us feel better.”

I stared at him over my coffee.

“No to what?”

He turned his cup around twice before answering.

“She has Down syndrome. We got the call, we said yes, and then we read the file and we just… couldn’t.”

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