Adoption is a wildfire, glass lake, steep mountain. Adopt, adapt, adaptation, adoption, adopted, adoptee, adulation, adoration, adult, adept, adopter, adoptive, adopt-a-pet, adopt a textbook, readopt, Hollywood adoption distortion Iron Man, Spider-Man, Superman, Annie, The Jerk, Punky Brewster, and Margo, Edith, and Agnes from Despicable Me, meme, memory, magically, mystery, we who miss, we who magic, we who breathe so deep like this. To re-member is to become wholly functional action, to join the group again, to re-body, to mem-oir, to re-create, to re-verse, to re-collect, to re-mind, to re-sist, to re-habilitate, re-cover, re-establish, re-form. To write is to form again, establish again, to exist again. Adoption is to mind again, verse again, to build, store, create, and live again.
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