I Married the Boy I Grew Up With in the Orphanage — Then a Knock the Next Morning Changed Our Entire Future

not to care.

When families toured the home, we never got excited. We’d seen it too many times. They wanted someone easier. Someone younger. Someone without a wheelchair. Someone without a long file of “previous placements.”

We made jokes to survive it.

“If you get adopted, I get your headphones.”
“If you do, I get your hoodie.”

We laughed every time.

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