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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: shades who wrote (107408)	4/11/2007 9:41:56 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

My niece is emotionally detached at 27. We took her to Korea when she was 17. She was treated much better then there then the rest of her family. She finally fit in,i think it was the happiest experience her life. We would be purchasing something or other and we paid double what they charged her, everywhere we went. She turned to me and said "see how it feels?" Her parents are the most giving people, Her dad a Doctor of Psychology out of Harvard. Her mom a elementary and middle school teacher with a masters from Harvard. She is truly a "stranger in a strange land." She is very accomplished academically but an emotional wasteland. Her mother had encephalitis in 2006,coma for a month, we are sitting in the ICU and i said to her daughters is there anything you would like to confess to mom. One answered she was arrested @14 for breaking curfew in the small town they lived in. I laughed and asked Korea for her confession, she said 2 months ago her and mom were supposed to go to skiing in Colorado and she canncelled ,told her she had work to do and went to Brazil for a vacation. I said are you sorry today? With her mother lying 2 feet away she said no. Not a tear while the rest of us were having a hard time holding it together. I tell every parent of foreign adopted children i meet to make sure they join a group from the country of their childs origin to help with culture and customs to help with a sense of identity. Tough stuff. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++= I feel for the kid that got called "nigger", my sis went through integration when she was just 12 and she got beat up on everyday because she was the wrong color. It made her a very hard person later on in life.