All-American, with one foot in China

Adoptive parents grapple with race, culture and growing up

"Like a lot of 8-year-olds, when Meg Garrison is mad at her parents, she occasionally threatens to run away. She even has a destination, says her father, Bill, a realtor in Seattle: “She says: ‘I’m running away — to China!' ” In some ways, it is a typical childhood antic, but it is also a sign that she has started reckoning with her beginnings as an orphan in China."

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