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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Long after my children were removed from their birth families, after many foster care separations and moves, after long searches for an adoptive home that’d keep brothers and sisters together, then they come to me so emotionally battered, so unable to trust, so nearly non – functioning as human beings, and we begin our journey together as I beat my own brains out on the walls trying to prove my love and commitment that they only want to reject, as if it then somehow justifies their former hellish existence to which they seemingly want to return to at all costs to themselves.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Where is America’s true character to be seen – in an adoptive home or at the abortion clinic?
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(. ?)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The potential adoptive home in Arizona backed out, so she’ll have some more time here to do so.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
What kind of tie do the? ethnics? feel to their adoptive home?
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(. ?)))
In Wikipedia:
One factor that helped making KADs visible in the Korean discourse, was a 1991 film called “Susanne Brink’s Arirang”, based upon the life and experiences of Susanne Brink, an adult KAD from Sweden who suffered abuse and racism in her adoptive home and country.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
In November 2007, he was removed from his adoptive home and placed in a group home and treatment center named Casa Pacifica after he alleged that his foster father was physically abusing him, a charge Gregory King denied.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Perhaps I missed my adoptive second home and was searching for my madeleine – remembrance of sweets past.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
We continue the theme of needing an adoptive home, with the next story about a 13 year old boy, who needs a loving family to call his own, more than anything else in the world!
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(. !)))
In Wikipedia:
“Susanne Brink’s Arirang” (-RRB- is a 1991 South Korean / Swedish film based upon the life and experiences of Susanne Brink, an adult Korean adoptee from Sweden who suffered abuse and racism in her adoptive home and country.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
They’ve been approved for an adoptive home that has been waiting for them since mid – August.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Sadie the desert tortoise needs a ride to an adoptive home in the Mojave Desert? the sooner the better.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Sadie the desert tortoise needs a ride to an adoptive home in the Mojave Desert – the sooner the better.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
If you are interested in adopting Dulcy and Tess or can foster them until an adoptive home can be found, please contact Beverly Ford at 302–559 – 4793.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Sadie the desert tortoise needs a ride to an adoptive home in the Mojave Desert, and soon.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The pain that the children cause, the pain the children are going through, and the pain of losing them either back to the birth home or to an adoptive home.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This closely follows the cheery and cheeky but oh – so – sweet movie Juno, about a teenager who didn’t mean to get pregnant, but after considering all of her options realized that carrying the baby to term and finding it a good adoptive home is the best way to live her life.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I’m happy to be taking requests – usually I just grab something and start working on it, and then find the socks an adoptive home after the fact.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
(AP) – Sadie the desert tortoise needs a ride to an adoptive home in the Mojave Desert – the sooner the better.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Having spent my youth in foster care and being very familiar with this type of attitude caused my blood to rush to my head in anger towards this worker? no wonder an adoptive home was never found for me!
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(. !)))
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