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  • Ireland's New Adoption Bill Is a Complicated Step Forward

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    December 1, 2022
    by Meghan Keefe
    "If I can be completely honest, at times I wish I had never been born… I was not given the gift of honesty growing up." These words come from an ...
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    by Marion Halftermeyer
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