It was a story about a 26 year old woman from Massachusetts who finds her birth parents in El Salvador. She was kidnapped at the ripe old age of two, by guerilla warriors during the civil war. Then, she was adopted by a New England couple, forgot any spanish she might have known, learned to drop her R's, and became a social worker. Last April she met her birth parents.
The date is probably my favorite part of the article. It is dated April 5, 2007. I know the Globe hasn't had this story sitting on their websight for seven monthes. It is probably a new post, but it had enough emotional pull, proximity, and interest to have a rather long shelf life.
The article highlights this meeting, but discusses that it is not isolated. Hundreds of El Salvadorian Children are returning home (basically the baby bussiness brought in big bucks for barborous milia men in the 80's).
The article was alright. It was not notably well written. All the names began with a B, and that got confusing. There was not really a good introduction to any of the people. The reasons I liked it though, was because it showed how long of a shelf life some stories have. I also liked that it took a foriegn issue and gave it proximity by using a Massachussettes woman.
I also really liked that it took a regular story, "hundreds of orphans find famliy in El Salvador" and made it human. It made these meeting tangible, even if it only discussed one.
THE END
JODA LEJOS
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