My family is really special.

My adoption-parents already had 2 children, when I was adopted. 2 boys, twins. They've got blue eyes and red hair. I'm from India, so I'm the complete opposite, with my black hair and dark skin.

When I turned 6 years old, we, my family, decided to adopt another child. A girl from Vietnam, my sister.

People often ask me how come we don't look alike, all of us. I find it hard not to laugh, they don't think before they ask.

I know they are allowed to be curious, but when people my age, 17, ask these kinda questions, I'm surprised. When they ask me if its hard not to look like my siblings.

In my family we say that "Blood is thicker than water, but love is thicker than blood."

People may not understand, that it is not important to look alike, but from the moment I came to this family I was loved, even before. And I know that's how it is to be adopted.

Parents don't adopt because they are required to do that. They adopt because they want a child, and wish this to happen. They wish for this to happen, and when they adopt a child. It's a child of love!

Emilie K.
Denmark

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