(Originally posted Saturday, April 29, 2006)
Dear Willa~
Your dad and I are in the car again, this time headed back from Boston to New York.
When we arrived at Stephen and Lisa’s house yesterday, I had an e-mail waiting from our agency representative sent out to all waiting families. It said that many people had inquired about the Waiting Child Program, and that a new list of available children would be posted at 4:30 p.m. central time. It also said that the agency expected a rush of applications and inquiries, but that the applications would be reviewed beginning May 8.
I printed the letter to show to your dad, and then we got ready and headed into Cambridge. It was all I could do to keep from finding a computer in the MIT student center so I could look at that list when it was posted. But there was no hurry. I restrained myself. Besides, what was I going to do - review files next to the MIT taqueria?
I could not, however, restrain myself much longer after we got home from the show. Sitting on the futon next to your dad, I pulled up the list, and proceeded to break everyone’s heart with one file after another.
Are you on that list, my little Willa Josephine? Ae you there? Have we looked at your photo and put our hands to our mouths, because your beauty was astounding. Do you have a serious, cool gaze? Do you have large, frightened eyes? Are you much bigger than we expected, or much smaller?
Who is this little girl who’s waiting for us at the same time we're waiting for her?
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