Emily Giffin - Where We Belong (2012)

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Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

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My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.

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I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.

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Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.

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Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

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But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.

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The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

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