I had a personally staggering, explosive weekend - in a good way. Wanted to share. Adoptees note.

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38. Nope! Not touching the floor yet. Don't know if they ever really will, completely, ever again.

It just BLEW. MY. MIND.

The first thing we did, the three of us, at the airport at the bottom of the escalator (well, after hugging and crying, that is), was to apologize to each other because we realized we were all just gonna be staring at each other all weekend, peering into each other's faces, searching for common features. Both my sisters have relatively low-pitched voices, as I do. That struck me immediately when I was first talking to them on the phone. It's just such a little thing. But it was just huge for me!

And Saturday when all those people were over, every now and then one of them would blurt out - "OH! Yeah - I SEE it!" 'Cause they'd be looking closely at me from the side, and suddenly they'd see the common trait or feature or shape of eye or brow or even chin a little. And I'd want to hear all about it!