While waiting for son (son!), we joined one of those cyberspace squats where you all sort of check the calendar together and go "Is the paperwork there yet? Are referrals here yet?" and when the answer is "No," you reminisce about Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and swap mix CDs. There's some talking about adoption and attachment (slings!) and packing for China and all that mixed in there, but I really remember the mix CDs and the Buffy.

Anyway, we waited with the folks behind the Pomegranate blog, and now one of 'em is on the international news with her adoption story. Because Evie has a twin. (And she has her picture on the BBC!)

This is all terribly exciting stuff, especially since I remember Evie's mom's wait being a particularly agonizing one. For reasons that remain obscure to me, Britain seemed to have longer wait times back then.

I know the United Kingdom has a centralized authority over intercountry adoptions, and there are quite a few other British adopters-from-China (like Emily Buchanan, who wrote a book, From China With Love, about her adoption story ((and, apparently, her work with Her Majesty's Secret Service)) as well as the above-linked BBC article). Britain's even got something like the FCC (Families with Children from China) in the (much better acronymed) CACH, Children Adopted from China, as well as the organization Mother's Bridge of Love, a charity and cultural crossover point that aims to "create a bridge of understanding between China and the West and between adoptive culture and birth culture."

It's nice to remember that there are more than just two countries involved in this intercountry adoption business (and if you really want to twist your mind around something, try to find statistics on American babies adopted by foreign nationals like our strange and exotic neighbors to the north). In fact, I think Evie's twin is in a country that isn't the UK and isn't the USA, but I'm not really sure (it's alluded to in the BBC article).

I've talked about Chinese twin stories closer to my home before. Apparently, these things happen every so often.