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#1 I have a lot of amazing things in my life, like supportive parents and a brother and sister, but I am also the luckiest girl on earth because I was born in 1970 to a young, unmarried, white Jewish girl from Manhattan.

#2 I was born on my father's birthday. My parents were out celebrating, and they received a message that I had arrived. They flew from Chicago to Binghamton, and took me home to Chicago. My adoption was closed. I have never met my biological mother.

#3 I am the luckiest girl in the world, because I have parents who were prepared to take on the world to protect me. Growing up, I never saw myself in anyone around me.

#4 I have never understood why I am not simply seen as human, which is the way I see people. But sadly, for some, it is not enough. They do not want to see me as a human, but rather as something else.