Waiting

The China adopt website I read had a post today about a woman with a beautiful baby who was in a mall one day and was approached by a stranger. Here is part of the post:
“She had him in one of those strollers that allow the carrier to snap into them, and she stopped for a rest and was talking to him when a lady came up and sat down with her, told her he was gorgeous, asked how old he was, and then offered to buy her son for $20,000. The dance teacher told the lady no and stood up and started walking away, pushing her son in front of her and going as fast as she could, which apparently wasn’t that fast yet. The lady kept after her, following her, telling her about this wonderful family who would adopt her child and give him all that the world could offer. The dance teacher kept saying no, and the lady kept going up in price. When the lady reached $180,000, the dance teacher finally saw a security guard and started working to get his attention, waving her arms and yelling for help. But, of course, as soon as she started that the lady offering money for her baby lost herself in a store, and by the time the dance teacher got the security guard apprised of what had happened, the lady was nowhere to be found.”
The sad part of it is, I can understand the desperation that drove the lady to do that. Obviously, she had money, and she must have been infertile. Desperate. Like me. I could never see myself doing what she did. What she did is beyond the pale. But one day, she’ll be successful. She’ll get her baby. She won’t have to go through tons of red tape and 4 years later, have little to show for it.

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