What a small world!

I spent a lot of time today reading my favourite China adoption rumours site, staying updated about the earthquake in China. Normally I don't pay a lot of attention to chatty threads, but there's quite a long thread about a particularly large family and some of the comments are interesting.

Anyway, someone posted a link to an article about a family that adopted 20 children, primarily from Russia. I noticed the link is to my hometown newspaper, so I had a look. Can you imagine the shock when I realised I know one half of the adoptive couple? The wife worked with my ex and we used to go to her house for dinners and picnics. This was years ago, before she was married. She and her husband look blissfully happy in the slideshow that accompanies the article. It's well worth a read, and definitely worth viewing the slideshow (the link for the slideshow is just beneath the word "Related").

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-11-22-0085.html