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By TOSINMILE OLA-AMUDA
Waiting was worse than I expected. I had
expected it to be sooner and was really excited that I would be out of here by
now. I threw out hopes of ever getting a family of my own ages ago and I was
utterly shocked and anxious when Miss Bola told me a week before that a family
wanted to adopt a girl and having seen the necessary documents especially my
medical history, they thought me the best choice. I asked Miss Bola so many
questions that she had to send me to the room to keep from questioning her
further.
The best choice? What a nice way to frame
adoption. I heard other girls talk about how impossible it was to get adopted
in Nigeria because of the cultural beliefs. I thought it cruel that they made
us watch movies of how children in other parts of the world living in
orphanages get their happy endings usually by getting adopted into a nice
family. But then, it was as if I was in a movie of my own.