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Elizabeth's Room
by bill - 2007-11-22 - ( family / adoption / holmes )
OK, here are the pictures:
Before
After
The plaque, if you can't read it, says:
To My Adopted Child
I gazed upon your tiny face
and knew right from the start
that you were sent to fill
a special place within my heart ~
bedtime stories, games and laughter ~
Days of tears and fun~
Giving joy in so many ways,
your smile still brings the sun~
Love entered my life forever
when you came to be ~
child born of another ~
Sent from God to me
~ author unknown
Isn't that great? Tara's friend Leslie gave us that.
The pug Joey wanted his picture here, so here it is: 
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