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Answered Prayer

May 4, 2009
By Courtney Duffy BRONZE, West Boylston, Massachusetts
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somewhere between
the four million bedtime stories,
the polite hellos from the
all-white congregation,
and the sweet chocolate-vanilla twist
stuck in her butterscotch hair--
she realized that it is in fact
quite possible to live life
in the delicate palm of
a brown infant’s hand.

© Michelle B., Blairsville, GA

The author's comments:
My inspiration for this piece came from my adoration of my brother. My family adopted him when I was just nine years old after four long years on an adoption agency waiting list. He is my favorite person in the entire world. He is of Guatemalan descent, which makes him "different" from most children in my largely Caucasian community. I have struggled against resistance to our biracial family, and this poem concludes with the sentiment that I have learned to grow from it.
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