I will be forever grateful to the selfless woman in the Phillipines who allowed me to adopt her son. Her greatest wish was that he could be an American.
She was so scared and so worried and so hopeful that I would take him and love him and provide for him.
Today he is an American citizen, employed, and a senior in college. I believe that she died when Mt Pinatubo erupted, we never heard from her again, but I hope that somehow she knows what a wonderful young man he is and how much I love her for what she did for me.