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  • Our Adoption Story Considering Adopting a Child after Infertility? January 27, 2014
  • Friends in Adoption: 1-800-98-ADOPT Should Adoption be a Reproductive Right? May 9, 2011
  • LGBT Pride Month Friends in Adoption at Pride Palooza June 10, 2013
  • Welcome Home, Colton! June 26, 2013
  • Isabella and Abigail FIA Family Album: Isabella and Abigail November 20, 2012

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