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We met him on a Saturday morning, in a room at the children's home that had been set aside for exactly this kind of thing, a room whose entire furnishing announced its purpose — a low table, some toys chosen by a committee, two chairs for the adults and a smaller one that nobody sat in, and a woman from the home who would stay throughout, kindly, in the corner, so that nothing about it could pretend to be natural. I had not understood, until we were standing outside the door, how much would be riding on an hour that was structurally incapable of going well, and I made myself, in the corridor, take the want down out of my face, because the one thing I knew for certain about the boy on the other side of the door was that he had been looked at by hopeful adults before, and that our hope,...
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