At First A Dream: An Adoption Journey |  | Author: Vic Goguen
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3903303
Media: Paperback
Edition: 0
Pages: 202
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0595374743
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780595374748
ASIN: 0595374743
Publication Date: November 8, 2005
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Product Description
A solitary figure stands stoop-shouldered at the entrance to a closed China Air terminal at JFK, and he feels a creeping vulnerability that is foreign to him at age fifty-three. Peering through the rain and fog at the ghostly glow of streetlights on deserted airport roads, he wonders what in heavens name he is doing there
alone
in the middle of the night
six thousand dollars strapped to his leg
and agonizingly unsure hell be able to get to Cambodia in time. At First A Dream chronicles the frustrating, emotional roller coaster that led Jan and Jim Pacenka to pursue an adoption, all the way to Phnom Penh. The book highlights key events leading to their life-altering decision, and captures the drama of Jims five-day intercontinental steeplechase to Cambodia, a Murphys Law scramble to beat an adoption moratorium stopwatch triggered by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. At First A Dream is a story about a journey, both figurative and literala journey embraced by a man and a woman wanting to share their lives with a child of the universe. It is a story of love, courage, and above all else, perseverance.
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