Partly personal. Why adoption? ; Number, please? ; Annual event? -- Adoption advice worth ignoring. To the rescue ; Replaceable parts? ; Adoption overdone ; Birth disorder ; Too old by kindergarten ; Unfinished business -- Adoption special effects. Too much specialness? ; The special needs list ; A special parent ; Not ready to be canonized -- Assorted adoption anxieties. The genetic objection ; Cracked up? ; A house of a different color ; Forever diagnosed? ; Study hard ; Not a pretty picture ; Home for good ; Unexpected visitors -- Adoption resistance. A house divided ; A two-hundred-grand kid ; Three's company, four's a crowd ; Out of the ruins ; Too many children? ; The Cinderella syndrome -- Communication 101. Talk right ; The adoption talk(s) ; The rejection perception ; Looking for reassurance ; A partly open book ; The view from now ; Who wants to know? -- Adoption self-image: myths and truths. Is love enough? ; The hallmark of a good family ; I'm really good, or I was ; The relatability factory ; The name is bond -- Adoption discipline basics. Misguided compensation ; Equal treatment ; Looking for greener grass ; Totally rad -- Adoption options. Who's calling, please? ; Pretty young for your age ; Play it again, mom ; From here or there? ; Temporary to permanent ; Open or shut case ; The cost factor ; First steps, at last