Name:   MrHodja - Subject:   GF - for the record Date:   11/10/2022 9:37:07 PM

We had two biological sons and wanted a daughter but were reluctant to roll the dice.  Then the Air Force decided we needed to spend a couple years in Korea and God's plan began to come together.  In Korea there is no stigma associated with giving up a child the family can't support, and if that child is never entered into a Family Registry (the Korean equivalent of a birth certificate, which they do not have)' it can be abandoned, usually at the steps of a wealthy family or a church.  Our daughter was indeed found on the steps to a church one morning with a note pinned to her pajamas containing four essential pieces of information, the lunar birth date, Julian birth date and two other pieces of information that I don't recall.  We had been cautioned that our child might be frail and weak, but she came to us one Saturday and was asleep when she arrived,but after waking up and looking around for about half an hour said to herself "I think I will stay".  Of course she was only 19 months old and spoke no English, but that is what we gathered from her demeanor and body language.  By the time she was 2 she was jumping off countertops like you or I might step off a curb.  She went on to be a stellar athlete, even participating in the Norway Cup soccer tournament, the largest youth soccer tournament in the world at that time, where her team played in the Championship match against a team of Zambians that to the player were at least a head taller.  

Update to November 2022.  She is a college graduate, a prized manager at her retail spot, and trains other managers for her company.  When the subject of adoption comes up there are no expressed desires to find her birth parents but tearful gratitude to he birth parents for saving her from a life toiling in the rice fields or one of the " glass houses" which are Korean brothels.  And we as parents have been so blessed to have her as our child....it just goes beyond words...on her Facebook page she often has the headline "Adoption rocks".

So if there is anyone out there contemplating adoption go for it...you and your adoptive child will both be rewarded.