Officially Adopted
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| Retha Colclasure |
| 11/20/2009 |
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| There aren`t that many people who choose to be a single parent. But for Alison Fallgatter, it wasn`t a hard choice to make. Even though it meant she would have to make changes to the life she knew as a single woman with a career, about three years ago, she decided to become an adoptive mother. Fallgatter first met her new son through a picture she got last January. Now, she`s had Will Robert Yohannes in her life for six months. But today is the day the one year old officially became her son. When Fallgatter began thinking of adopting a child a few years ago, she tried to talk herself out of it. "I had a lot of freedom being a single person with a career, and all the free time I wanted," she says. "It was easy to come up with excuses why I didn`t want to give that up and yet this has been the best thing that`s ever happened." Will hadn`t even been born when Fallgatter was first looking to adopt. "The paper pregnancy is a long time," she says. That pregnancy was a lot longer than the nine months other expectant mothers had to wait. "It`s not an easy process, the road isn`t short and straight, it`s long and windy, but so worth it," says Fallgatter. She first intended to adopt a baby from China, but then learned the country wouldn`t allow adoptions to single parents. So, her attention turned to Ethiopia. "I fell in love with Ethiopia," she adds. And as soon as Fallgatter saw a picture of the orphaned little boy who would become her son, she fell in love with him. All that was left was a lot of waiting. "We live in a world where people are worried about the economy worried about 401Ks, worried about health care reform," she says. "I can go to my faucet and get plenty of clean water to drink and that`s more than millions of people in the world have." Now, life will be a lot different for the both of them, but with the support of family and friends, the rewards will just keep multiplying. Fallgatter hopes to adopt a few more kids, but since she brought Will home in April, Ethiopia no longer allows adoptions to single parents. So, she says, she might have to start looking at other countries. |
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