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Nearly five months have passed since the last evacuation, and in that time, Esai, who loves soccer and is mischievous, hasn’t been able to talk to his adoptive mother in the United States or his two older brothers who live with her as internet connections and other logistics falter.
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Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
His biological mother left his family when Ellison was a child, and his adoptive mother died of cancer during his time in college.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2024
Catch up quick: For about 150 years, Indigenous children were forcibly sent to boarding schools, foster care and adoptive families.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 30 Aug. 2024
The disturbing true story of a North Carolina man who impregnated his biological daughter and then killed her, her adoptive father and his own infant son in a triple-murder-suicide is being adapted into a new Lifetime movie.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
His biological mother left his family when Ellison was a child, and his adoptive mother died of cancer during his time in college.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2024
Catch up quick: For about 150 years, Indigenous children were forcibly sent to boarding schools, foster care and adoptive families.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 30 Aug. 2024
The disturbing true story of a North Carolina man who impregnated his biological daughter and then killed her, her adoptive father and his own infant son in a triple-murder-suicide is being adapted into a new Lifetime movie.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Adoptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adoptive. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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