By: Greg Mitchell While poking around The New York Times' Web site this morning, looking for updates on Paul Krugman's current battles with The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus, his colleague David Brooks -- and even Tom DeLay -- I came across a stamp-sized photo of someone my wife and I know very well.
It wasn't a complete surprise, for I knew her online-only essay had been posted the night before, with that picture attached, but it was nice to see it get prominent play on the Opinion home page.
Clicking back to the main page for all of www.nytimes.com, I saw that the same photo was also at the very top there.
So I am not the only one who apparently thinks it is quite extraordinary.
The author is novelist Lynn Lauber, a good friend (and almost neighbor) for many years. She wrote a terrific column that appeared in the Times' Style section on Sunday 11 days ago which, like her new piece, explores how and why she gave up a child for adoption when she was just 16 -- and then tried to find her three decades later. The photo that I've mentioned shows Lynn today, with that grown child -- and young granddaughter.
Lauber writes in the current posting: "Why do I bring up my own case? Because mine is the kind of story you rarely hear about ? a reunion of adults who were grateful to find each other....Some adoptees need to search for their birth parents, and others don?t, but the secrets and silence that once hung over adoption should be permanently replaced with air and light."
Rather than describe it more fully, I'll just provide the link, with the urging: go there.
http://relativechoices.blogs.nytimes.com/
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