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I actually thought you were going to write about families who adopt children from different ethnic groups (which is kind of what the Ugly Ducking story implies, even though it wasn’t the original intent)! In any case, I’m that conservative-ish girl who has, since university more than 20 years ago, been a little off in many of her humanities classes. I’ll post my rant about the intro women’s studies class I walked out of in ‘98 because the TA was being an idiot (I may have written about it in my own Substack…will need to check). Well, conservative-ish according to many, especially those who have the strongest and loudest voices these days (and back in the late 90s and early naughts). But anyway…

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That's the wonderful thing about fictional writing is it's up to the reader to use their own interpretations. I appreciate you reading my article. I enjoyed your post about only children. I'll need to check out more of your articles. Individual opinions make the world go round for sure and there is so much we can learn from others that way

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