Sometimes my mum and dad can be over-protective, but I know they only want the best for me. We get on well.
The best thing about being adopted is realising that you are in the best place and you have a future ahead of you. I do get my ups and downs but I love being adopted, as I know I will be loved forever.
Charlene (pictured left): I don't like the thought of being adopted as it makes me sad that my adoptive parents aren't my real parents. But I think of my adoptive parents as "real" and my birth parents as surrogate.
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