When the Bolivars decide on a return visit, Milly joins them. Television newscasts of elections in Latin America announce a triumphant Liberation Party, with the dictator fleeing the country. the longing hurt too much and I was afraid of falling into a big black hole of sadness!' to my birth family?' Unable to sleep that night, Milly ponders: ' I felt itchy inside, as if I was allergic to myself', while ' feeling helpless and adrift not knowing my story, who my birth parents had been, why they had given me up. Milly asks her Dad, ' Is that what might have happened. and people living sub-human lives under oppressive regimes'. Dad converses with the Bolivars about ' the state of the world. When the Kaufmans invite the Bolivars into their home, Mrs. Pablo's country is in revolt against a cruel dictatorship and he has relatives in the midst of the turmoil. Pablo recognizes Milly's eye color (brown with yellow flecks) as common to people in Los Luceros. She has never told any of her classmates about her adoption. When Pablo Bolivar enters ninth grade at Milly's school after immigrating from the same country with his family, she becomes uncomfortable. Milly now lives in Vermont with her parents and siblings. F inding Miracles is the story of teen Milly (for Milagros, meaning miracles) Kaufman, who was adopted as an infant by an American couple serving in the Peace Corps in Latin America.
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