Kids

Unquestionably the most inspiring people I met on this trip were the kids, and I sat next to a wonderful French woman on the bus to Cotonou here to adopt two of them. She felt a little too old to deal with diapers, and understands that 3 to 4 year olds adapt easily, so that is the age of the kids she will soon call her own. It takes over a year to finalize an adoption, but she hopes and expects for everyone’s sake that she will get to take them home to France sooner.

Babies

Nadine Frouin has been building a house on the coast of Benin for 10 years now, a little at a time as money allowed, and will one day make it her home. I liked very much the notion that her children will one day return to the country from which they came, and I hope Nadine never recovers from Mal d’Afrique. I told her I might very well be cured.

Bohicon, Benin