Mirror mirror on the wall
Our promise to Tin is to make sure his life is mirrored in the community he inhabits, that would mean he would know other families who are not the same color, he would know other adopted children, he would know children with same-sex parents, and he would know children of other cultures in order for him to see that families don’t come prepackaged in some standard format but a family is about parents who help children grow strong and who all support each other. In other words, Tin’s inside world would be mirrored outside.
Four young lesbians came over to our house the other night and when they left, they had met older women like themselves, they had seen my family of T1 and T2 as well as animals etc. When they left, one of them told us that we gave them hope that there is a future for them outside of college, outside of the insular world that they have kept themselves hidden in. There is a world out.