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As the secret pepper person was telling me about "peanut" I was already falling in luv with her. She was free for adoption or so we thought. My ex and I went through all the classes, background checks, homestudies and so on. They were ready to move our "peanut" in with the 4 of us. My two big kids were very excited and we have never raised them to see color so the race factor was not a problem. She moved in in August. We all moved that following december because I didn't want her growing up in a all white neighborhood. A week after the move my friend and I were painting my living room and out came "peanut". You have to remember that even though she is now 4 she is the size of a 1 year old. She was holding her head and crying. I knew something was teribbly wrong. I rushed her to All Childrens Hospital where our journey with that wonderful institution and it's amazing nuerosurgeons(espicially Dr. Tuitte) began. To this day my "peanut" has had to endure nuerosurgery going into her brain to change her shunt over 50 times. Yes folks I said over 50 brain surgeries. She has also had an additional cardiac surgery and many other procedures. She has been through more than most of us will ever go through. Anyway I got a call from her case worker one day to tell me to my horror that they had found paternal grandparents who wanted MY "peanut". I was DEVASTATED!!!!!! Luckly the grands lived in rural georgia 2hrs away from medical help and the grands had no transportation. I thought I would have lost her because of the race difference but because of her health we won. She then was legally adopted on MARCH 8TH 1999. PRAISE GOD!!!!