But, as a straight person, she didn't feel like she had the authority to rewrite the rules on her own.

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In a country where unrealistic conditions slacken usual adoption, gay prospective parents have had to act as any straight single person would, ask for an adoption authorization, and, to improve the chances ... get the child in another country.

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Ms Miller tells it straight, in a third person narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

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One person who set me straight on this was Tom Rolfson.

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"Because we can cross those cultural boundaries, there will be opportunities for us that may not exist for the person who is coming straight from a foreign culture, " she says.

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You could be playing with someone for a year straight, going and playing online competing with people, and never really knowing what that person looks like.

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The day that I decided I wanted to live, I went back to school, made straight As, graduated at the top of my class, on the National Honor Society, became the first person in my family on either side, to graduate from college.

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