Paul. Alice and Julie adamantly refused to invite their parents or older sister although they had sent Karen, their sister, a change of address card. ...he silence from that part of the country was deafening. Dave’s brother and wife drove down from outside Dayton, Ohio. Heather’s mother came from only three miles away, and of course Matthew was there. Five other children under ten were in the mix, and Matthew found he had new friends to play with.The Center opened up all the homes in the project. “Elsa broke the paradigm I had about how I spent my time, and then about how I loved other people. I wanted to spend all my time with her and then Cindy and you others. Further, I fell in love with an increasing number of women. I’d been raised to fall in love with ONE woman, but that turned out to be an outmoded relationship model – at least for me and most of you.“Elsa brought Cindy into our loving relationship. Melanie and Sheila followed soon after. We interacted with other women and men. I am a combat veteran and have callously stepped over dead and dying men on streets and in jungles and deserts around the world on many occasions. Some I've killed myself, but I'd never been one to walk past a young mother and baby in distress without offering to help!I walked over to her and sat down two seats away from them so perhaps I wouldn't seem threatening. "Ma'am," I spoke quietly and calmly, "your baby sounds like it may have a touch of the colic." I hoped my appearance wasn't too. You could foster a child until you decided whether or not to go through with the adoption.”“Isn’t that kind of hard on the child? Never knowing if he or she was going to be rejected would be tough for a kid to face.”“You are correct, but we would not place a child with you until we were sure that we had found the right one for you. Do you want a boy or a girl?”Jo said, “We had not gotten that far in our planning. Since we had just assumed that we would adopt a baby, the sex was not an important.