The Spring of 2000 was an interesting time for me. As a Grad student at LSU I felt as though I was on top of the world. Around mid-April I developed a case of the flu. This caused me to be bed bound for almost a week. At one point in that week, my wife mentioned something about me needing to meet these two little girls. If memory serves I threw up and went back to sleep. By the end of the week I was feeling better. In pops the wife from work informing me that "tonight was the night". As a young married man there are a couple of ways to interpret such a message. None of them involved what happened next. Within the hour I was headed to McDonald's to meet the girls I was going to adopt. You cannot image the emotions running throug...
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