A story about a little girl who joins a family in America from India and becomes their adopted daughter.
(Heard the name Ghita this morning, while watching a program about adoption, and right away, a story idea started cookin' in my fertile little brain! Enjoy!)
Ghita Danee' Freeman is her name, and she is five years old now.
She looks and acts like any other little five-year-old: long, messed-up hair that is often tangled, huge, curious eyes that miss very little, a round face, a sturdy little dark-skinned body, and a personality that can melt your heart one minute and try your patience the next.
But Ghita's story is far from being average or ordinary. Her story begins in a little village in India, and she was living in an orphanage with over three dozen other children. Her birth mother abandoned her after the mother became sick, and her father's whereabouts was unknown. Ghita was born very healthy, considering the poor, unsanitary conditions of where she was living; and she was brought to the orphanage when she was about a year and a half old.
At the orphanage, Ghita was cared for, and she learned to accept love and give love to others; and it was here where her personality really started to blossom. She was a very smart and mercurial child, and she had many friends who played with her for many a happy hour.
She seemed destined to spend her growing-up years in this orphanage, but fate was about to intervene, and during her fourth year of life, she was put up for adoption, and unbeknownst to her, she would soon be joining a family in America. She would eventually become the first child to Bob and Eileen Freeman, who lived in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
The couple grew more excited as they thought about adding a child, so they could become a family, but their joy and excitement soon was tempered by a sense of overwhelming sadness and grief when it was discovered that the couple was unable to conceive and have children. Bob and Eileen Freeman had been looking foward to starting a family, but their dreams were immediately shattered when they heard the grim news being delivered to them by their doctor. They couldn't have children. EVER. All the dreams and happy fantasies of having a large family disappeared instantly, and their world darkened and tears fell as they tried to come to terms with the horrible news.
Several weeks later, the still-heartbroken couple was trying to rebuild their shattered lives, trying to make sense of what had happened, and feeling pain each and every time they saw a family together. It seemed that families were just about everywhere they went, and when they saw these families, their hearts were stabbed, and the grief would cover them like a huge, smothering blanket; and the tears would fall anew. But then a friend of theirs who worked at an adoption agency suggested that they try adoption.
The idea seemed far-fetched and ludicrous at first; but as they thought about it, the more and more the idea grew; and the better they liked it. It was soon decided that they would pursue the field of adoption and get all the necessary information and paperwork that was needed to get the process started.
About a month or two after they had first started applying for adoption, a phone call came, the call that they had hoped and prayed for since starting the adoption process: there was a child waiting for them. A little girl in India needed a family, and she was over the age of two and was considered "special needs" because of her age. She was considered "unadoptable" because she was older than infancy, and placing her was proving to be increasingly difficult. The child's name was Ghita Anju, and she was three years old at the time. The adoption agency, Holt International, which specialized in placing children with special needs or children who were older with waiting and loving families, was the adoption agency who was handling Ghita's adoption situation, and they knew of the Freemans' desire to have a child, so they called them, to see if they were interested in adopting Ghita.
The agency stated that Ghita was rather healthy, with no known defects or health problems, but it was her age that prevented her from finding a home or a family; and the longer she would wait in an orphanage, the harder it would be to place her.
Bob and Eileen Freeman didn't care: all they wanted was the child, and when they first saw her picture that the agency had sent them, they were moved to tears. Little Ghita Anju was a beautiful little girl, small, thin in build, and was "all eyes", according to Bob. It didn't matter to them that she was dark with black hair and eyes and that they were white; all they cared about was the child, and the more they stared at her picture, the more they wanted her; and they soon couldn't wait until their child would join them in America as their newly adopted little girl.
A wicked Cajun Fairy named Robes Pierre entered the impenetrable Magical doll land of Sha Bebe. Queen Faustina, the ruler of the doll land, thought she had destroyed him, but he's back! Will the doll land survive his evil ways?
A wicked Cajun Fairy named Robes Pierre entered the impenetrable Magical doll land of Sha Bebe. Queen Faustina, the ruler of the doll land, thought she had destroyed him, but he's back! Will the doll land survive his evil ways?
