Adoption Story Appreciator Gifts

'Now you're older, we think it's time you knew that both your father and I and you are adopted.'

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

Hot cross buns

Ask Sadie! I just read an article where Daisy Ridley said J.J. Abrams wrote drafts for Episode VIII and Episode IX. And then Rian Johnson THREW THAT OUT and went a whole different direction. This makes me lose all faith in Star Wars. Am I overreacting? **Actual reader question. Excellent question. This reminds me of the time I saw Gone with the Wind on opening day. I was the invited guest of an elderly veteran of the Civil War. He couldn't stop yammering about how seceding from the union didn't

"Peace. Love. Adopt."

"But honey. . . he's just not our kind!"

"After the big race, the tortoise and the hare are ordered to provide urine samples."

Ali Baba- Cover Design for Proposed Edition of The Forty Thieves

Jack and the Beanie stock.

'It's time you knew, Son -- you were abandoned here as a child by aliens.'

"Math would have been a 'A' if you factor in the fudge factor. I got caught fudging on the final."

"Mom, Dad - I'm adopted, aren't I?"

'Can we postpone this? I'm out of lighter fluid.'

"Without the drone we wouldn't have made it on time!"

Adopt a highway

'You know, I think I'm in the wrong nest.'

"Pretend you're interested in granddad's old stories and stop calling them reruns."

Tosca discovers Mario Cavaradossi is stabbed

Plastidad

'I wanted my birth mother and adoptive mother to finally meet.'

We just want to be a real boy! Pinocchio. Ikea. Swedish Folktale.

"Dad, am I adopted?"

"If you kiss me I turn into a prince and if you lick him, well, you can’t really be hallucinating more than you are already."

'Actually I was hoping to meet a knight in shining armour!'

Well, someone's gotta tell him he's adopted.

"Mommy, will you please tell us the story about the man who brokered our overseas adoption?!"

"Picture this: it's my birthday, my mistress comes towards me with a cake and then, she sets it alight! I was so scared I've been feral ever since!"

"Nora, do you ever think about the future?"

'Hurry up with the ransom note, we haven't much time.'

What's your question for "Ask Sadie"? Are you voting for Trump or Clinton? Excellent question. It reminds me of the time in grade school when little Chester Oswald threw my liverwurst sandwich on the ground. The schoolmarm gave me a terrible choice: I could either eat the dirt-covered sandwich, or I could go hungry. So I chose the only thing I could choose ... I switched my sandwich with hers, and when she yakked up her lunch I laughed and laughed. So ... you're saying ... what?

'Keep looking, nerd, keep looking.'

Trilby - 'Et maintenant dors, ma mignonne!'

'I want to tour Europe, to search for my birth parents.'

'Push!..Push!..Push!..Push!'

"Shh. He doesn't know he's adopted yet."