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January 26, 2013

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As long as you [prospective parents] are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't no real difference between triplets and an insurrection. _____ MARK TWAIN
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Over a dozen years ago, in what can only be called an extreme act of hubris, my former husband and I adopted twin boys from Russia. Since then I generally feel like I am living in some bizarre reality TV show--SPEND A DECADE LIVING WITH TWO CRAAAAAZY KIDS!--or that I am a feature of a hard-hitting documentary exposé on the difficulties of raising children adopted from Eastern European orphanages--FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME, HYPERACTIVITY, LANGUAGE DELAYS, BEHAVIORAL IMPAIRMENTS, OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS: THIS WOMAN GOT MORE THAN SHE EXPECTED! After years of being urged by friends to write about the experience ... well, here 'tis.
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