Okay, so I did what I said I would do last night. I got out the story books I made about adoption. I got out the photo album of the only baby pictures I have(an early life book). She happily looked through the books and listen to HER story. She has always loved these books, and tonight was no different. She flipped through the photo book a little more quickly than usual. When I turned out the lights for bedtime, she gave me a huge hug and told me she loved me. Then she said something very sad. She asked me if I would never______ and never______ and always take care of her? I can't be sure exactly what happened to her, but her story is the same each time. I asked her to tell me more about it and she said she couldn't because the story was too long. I asked if she could make it short and she said no. Then she said that HE told her not to tell anyone. I thought this was really strange, I would think that if she saw something that they wouldn't have told her not to tell anyone, she didn't even speak a word in China. I thought about it for a while and figured out that she was probably saying what someone said, but not to her, but her nanny or other adult. I think this because she told me what someone said before this. This was the story she told me where I asked questions and I could verify the accuracy based on the details she provided. I had pictures that showed what she described and I know she had never seen them before. I am writing these things down in detail because someday, hopefully, the memories will fade for her. This story will be written down so if she is ever troubled by memories when she is older, this can help her work things out.
On a better note, we started our new program yesterday and she did great. I took me a while to get it down myself, it took a lot of coordination!
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