Reply #77: Ran into something similar a few years ago

[LibertyLover]

We had flown over to London for vacation with our then 4 year old daughter who is adopted from China. While waiting for the bus to the hotel, another couple with their obviously adopted daughter joined the group. My daughter pointed excitedly to the other little girl and said something like 'Mommy, look, she looks like me. Did she come from China too?'. I said that yes, I thought she might have. The other mother looked over at us with a very annoyed look on her face. I smiled and asked politely if her daughter were from China. Yes, she said very curtly. My daughter piped up with 'I'm from Hubei - is she too?', to which the woman replied that they were trying to keep races and nationalities out of raising their child and so they were keeping her province of birth a secret. I just said oh, ok, and turned back to my family, but I was thinking to myself 'good luck with that - the minute the kid looks at herself and her parents in the mirror, she is going to realized that she doesn't look the least like them and then the questions are going to start.