![]() What he did have was an unguarded desire to win Greene’s heart. ![]() ![]() Beyond throwing sticks and rocks into a pond, Jesse had no concept of how to “play.” Her story begins in 1998 with 4-year-old Jesse, a Bulgarian Romani child with a “snaggle-toothed smile.” After three years in an overcrowded rural orphanage, he hoarded food, had never seen the letters of the alphabet, and recoiled in terror when handed a stuffed animal. ![]() “No Biking in the House Without a Helmet” is her sprawling, imperfect, courageous and joyful account of the adoption process, warts and all - the heart-wrenching trips to orphanages, frustrating delays, visits with living relatives, and the way her family welcomed and made room for each child, as well as the inevitable homesickness and culture clashes and sometimes rocky emotional terrain. ![]() Despite the excitement that soon gave way to anxiety, then “icy panic” and finally a feeling of “Whose idea was this anyway?" she eventually adopted five children, one from Bulgaria and four from Ethiopia, ranging in age from 3 to 12. ![]()
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