One of Celeste’s soft books. As you can see by crayon marks and stains, it was used and well loved.

Ekaterina Anatolyevna Koshkina was going to have her fifth birthday in less than a month. Her little sister, Lyubov Anatolyevna Koshkina, was two and a half and lived in a different orphanage. That made absolutely no sense to me. It made Amy cry. Again.

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About the Author

John M. Simmons is an adoption advocate and author of the award-winning novels The Marvelous Journey Home and To Sing Frogs. John performs television and radio interviews and writes editorials to share his experience with special needs and international adoption. He appears at book clubs, and is a frequent guest speaker for various groups to increase adoption awareness. He and his wife have three biological sons and six adopted children.