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    Expectations: A True Adoption Story
    Expectations: A True Adoption Story
    Expectations: A True Adoption Story
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    Expectations: A True Adoption Story

    By Tony Bertauski

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    I write fiction. I make up stories. This is not one of them.

    This is all true.

    Some minor details have been altered and names changed, but the story itself is true. At some point, you won't believe it. Hell, I don't believe some of it and I was there. I never planned on writing about it. Until I did. It's a story about crises. It's about resolution, about life prevailing.

    It's about adoption.

    This is not a step-by-step guide on how to turn lemons into lemonade. I'm not dull enough to ignore the luck involved that made all of this happen. It's just one story.

    It happens to be true.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeadPixel Publications
    Release dateSep 2, 2017
    ISBN9781386760993
    Expectations: A True Adoption Story

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    Expectations - Tony Bertauski

    Preface

    I write books of fiction. This is not one of them.

    Some minor details have been altered and names changed. At some point, you might think I'm making things up. Some of them I don’t believe and I saw it happen. This is a story about crisis. It’s about resolution and life prevailing. It’s about adoption.

    This is not a step-by-step guide on how to turn lemons into lemonade. I’m not an expert in crisis management or adoption. There was plenty of the luck that made it all happen. This is just one story.

    It happens to be true.

    One

    This story starts with a girl named Heather.

    She was a fair-skinned redhead who was a year behind me in middle school. We had never said a word to each other. We didn’t run with the same crowds. I had no idea if she noticed me, but I noticed her. Middle school was all about hormones. She was cute. Attractive.

    Of course I noticed.

    She got straight As and didn’t cuss. She didn’t stay out late on weekends, played saxophone in the band, and cheered on the sidelines with pom-poms with more school spirit than the mascot.

    She was preppy and wore what was in style. This was the early eighties—double Polo shirts, leg warmers, and acid-washed denim. She wasn’t an easy girl. No one got past first base with her, as far as I knew.

    She was a good girl.

    I wasn’t exactly a bad boy, but my crowd wasn’t preppy. I played football, dipped Skoal, stole from my parents’ wallets and lived in arcades. I wasn’t a stellar student, but I wasn’t the worst. My run with girls was about the same.

    Not the best, not the worst.

    Michelle was my high school girlfriend. We did what most high school kids did, and we were doing it with her mom in the next room. It was exciting and daring and stupid. We were back and forth for about a year or so.

    At some point during that time, there was Heather.

    Every Sunday, I saw her in church and watched her approach communion. That was the only thing I liked about mass, waiting to see her come back. I would imagine what it was like to date a girl like that. We didn’t seem to be a match, but somehow it happened.

    For two weeks.

    There were no fireworks during that time. Maybe we held hands, I don’t remember. After two glorious weeks of tepid affection, she broke it off. She was good about it, telling me

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