So our next best thing was to be put back into foster care and we were put back into foster care for about another six years where we bounced up and down around the east coast and then landed into a semi permanent home for the latter part of our foster care experience . And then we were blessed enough to be adopted at the ages of eight and six by two amazing individuals . Yeah .
Uh , and , uh , but we look back on it , uh , especially for myself . I look back on it as , you know , if , if they didn't step in and they didn't adopt us at that particular time , I wouldn't have been able to do the things that I'm able to do . So , they've served a very , very , extremely important , um , you know , peace in my life .
So there was a lot of loss and a lot of that experience , you know , and , you know , fast forwarding a little bit further . You know , our time with our adopted parents was very short lived as well and we wound up losing both of them in our mid twenties to two extreme situations . So , you know , not many people can say they've lost two sets of parents in , in a lifetime .
Family is a big question . Uh My best friend in the world has adopted as well and we spoke about it so much um for you , what was uh like a shining moment that really helped you understand , like what mattered more and the blood or the love , you know , kind of the things as a Yeah , I think when we were adopted and I remember some of the very first things that happened for us is that we had a huge adoption party and the whole family was there , you know , cousins , uncles , you know , pieces that we didn't have before and they really accepted us with open arms as we were already there and part of the family . So that made our transition that much easier .
Yeah . What uh do you feel like his because it sounds like he's got , you know , he's definitely questioning his , his current position and which is a very common thing Yeah , it's a very common thing for adopted Children to feel that way , especially , you know , feeling abandonment or feeling acceptance and one , they're stuck in their past a lot and they don't know how to break through or filter through that because all they focus on is , well , they're , they're trying to figure out reality from current purpose , uh , and what their purpose is and their past reality is like my real parents so called real parents didn't want me . And now these are my fake parents because that's what society says .
