“What?” You could almost hear Evelyn Esponson rubbing her hands together. “Boring. Reductive. Repetitive. AHAM is right that people don’t get over a lifetime of trauma in ten minutes, but at least the trauma part gets told. What about adoption stories that aren’t tragedies? Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ever get that movie?”
