she came in the expansion of ethiopia through the emperor haile selassie, who was sending out studentsd, to get education and then to feed back into the growth of ethiopia. it was a very exciting time in ethiopia, at that time. was she pregnant, actually, when she arrived? good question. i'm not sure she was pregnant when she arrived. i think i was conceived quite literally in the journey. interesting. but here she was, a young woman in a new country, an alien culture, trying to find her place. and she then found herself pregnant, had the baby, and clearly decided she could not live her life with this baby, at this particular time, and decided to give it up. which was you, of course. women are incredible, 0k? and the act of giving a child away to be fostered or adopted is, is, is to me the action of a heroine. and what my mother did was she asked me to be fostered for a short period of time, while she studied, so that she could then take me back to ethiopia. say a year, year and a half? the social worker gave me to foster parents and said, "treat this as an adoption. he's yours forever