Allie and Andrew want to adopt a baby (and you can help).
Thus far this block association has concerned itself with matters that don’t quite approach critical importance such as what smoothie you should get at the fancy bodega on 28th and 10th (PB & Blues), unhelpful advice you can give to your friends after spacing out during a heart-to-heart (it is what it is), the sartorial choices of a bilingual Dalmatian (a lot of light coats), and whether Batman lives at 529 West 29th Street (the investigation continues).
This post is a little different. Last weekend I met Allie and Andrew, who live up on 30th Street. Allie and Andrew want to adopt a baby. They have a website about it here: https://andrewallieadopt.com/.
Allie is a middle school math teacher; Andrew is an infectious disease doctor. Allie is from the West Coast; Andrew is from the heartland. They met at some type of dance club in Seattle where people like Andrew eschew dating apps and work up the courage to ask people like Allie to dance. Allie says yes. To botch a Walt Whitman quote: they were together; I forget the rest.
Allie strikes me as the type of person who would move heaven and earth for her kid. She is the mom who would hang on your every word, thought, or emotion; talk to every one of your doctors, coaches, or teachers; drive you to every game, practice, or recital; and stay up with you all night because you’ve blown something completely out of proportion and there is only one person in the world who is going to make you feel better about it.
Andrew strikes me as the type of person who quietly re-balances the earth on its axis. He is the dad who spends hours teaching you how to golf or ski or throw a baseball; builds a tree fort because you climbed a tree and fell out of it three months ago; and reteaches himself calculus because you’re really struggling with the homework right now.
If those examples strike you as a little too real, what I’m trying to say is that Allie and Andrew remind me just enough of my own parents for me put whatever weight this block association has into getting their story out.
That is where you come in. There are as many as 36 families looking to adopt for every infant placed for adoption. So the word really needs to spread as far and wide as possible to increase their chances, particularly to doctors, social workers, church leaders, community organizers, and really anyone else you can think of who may be connected to parents looking to place their baby for adoption.
You can help now just by clicking on their website and sharing it among your networks and on social media. You can also meet them if you don’t want to take my word on any of the above—they live right next door.
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