This Made Me Cry ~ by Jay

From Motherlode - two essays by teenagers who found their first mothers and bio families on Facebook. The whole thing is worth reading, but this statement really got me. From Alexander Dorf, who discovered that his biological dad also loves reptiles, and that at 6'2" he is a foot shorter than his biological brother, and then reflected on the influence of his adoptive parents:

I may not have inherited their body type or facial features, instead I have inherited their values which they continue to teach me everyday.

I'll take that.