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How to Cope When an Adoption Falls Through

Our adoption fell through at the hospital when the birth mother changed her mind and we had already bought the crib and told everyone and I cannot stop crying.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief for a future that existed fully in the heart but never in reality.

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