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On Becoming A Family: Melanie's Story Of Benjamin's Adoption, 2002, Melanie Springer Mock
On Becoming A Family: Melanie's Story Of Benjamin's Adoption, 2002, Melanie Springer Mock
Faculty Publications - Department of English
Excerpt: "I became a mother in the back of a taxi cab.
No sit-com cliché, this. The taxi was a late-model, jacked up Honda, its plush chairs bedecked by delicate white doilies. Traffic dared not impede my driver, a silently brooding young man who weaved between Cyclos and motorcycles freighted by fruit, vegetables, live chickens, entire families. I sat tensely in the backseat, holding my son, incredulously wondering into what I had just gotten myself."