A Gutemalan Mom, & Her Adoptee Daughter in US

choi

Elizabeth Foy Larsen, Untying a Birth Mother's Hands. New York Times, Aug 5, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/0 ... ds-modern-love.html
("In the United States, the overwhelming majority of birth parents meet and choose their child’s adoptive parents. But most international adoptions are closed, meaning that many international adoptees leave the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency with almost none of the family background that domestic adoptees take for granted")

Excerpt in the window of print: By going to the source, we wanted our daughter to know how she came by her dimples and why she loves to draw.

Note:
(a) Antigua Guatemala
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua_Guatemala
(famous for its well-preserved Spanish Mudéjar-influenced Baroque architecture as well as a number of spectacular ruins of colonial churches; Antigua Guatemala means "Ancient Guatemala" and was the third capital of Guatemala)
(b) adoption
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption
(section 2.1 Forms of adoption: open or closed)