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Reunion, J.L. Penn’s first novel, was inspired by reconnecting with her childhood crush on the Facebook social media site. It got her thinking. How many people reconnect with old flames through social media sites? How many end up having an affair through the reconnections?
The infatuation never created any sort of union at school or in adulthood, and both the author and the crush are now happily married - to other partners, and with children.
But the line of thinking brought back all the torment and angst suffered as a teenager: the unrequited passion distraction that obsesses teenage years. This ..
Adopting a child from a foreign country is for the big hearted, not for the fainthearted. Cathy Bonnstetter and her family adopted four and a half year old Alex from Romania after a long process dealing with agencies and bureaucracy. More than once they thought about giving up on the idea Cathy had had since she was in her teens. That the family did not give up is in some part due to the welcoming and generous nature of her 3 biological children, who convinced her that they had to keep on fighting to bring Alex to the United States and ..
