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Two years ago, on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains, I saw a white couple at a restaurant with their Asian daughter. Although her father told her to quit staring, I felt the girl’s eyes on me all through the meal. I smiled at her, feeling a strong sense of kinship, a pang of sympathy. As a child, whenever I saw another Asian person — which I hardly ever did — I used to stare, too, hungry for the sight of someone, anyone, who looked like me.
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Callahan, N.S. (2014). Conclusion: Talking About Race and Adoption. In: Treitler, V.B. (eds) Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275233_13
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