When Two Souls Collide: A Story of Untion

WHEN TWO SOULS COLLIDE: A Story of Union

                                                                          A.P.
Chronicles of an international adoption in Russia gone terribly wrong is the entertwining plot of this autobiographical work by the anonymous author "AP."  When Two Souls Collide starts off spinning the story of the roller coaster ride of emotions and the plethora of complexities involved in uniting a traumatized toddler from a Russian orphanage with a soul searching mama-want-to-be. 

Within the US adoption agency rules and the foreign inter-country adoption bylines, a single mom with hopes of expanding her family follows the trail of mystery and intrigue that leads to a tiny village in Russia where a 19 month old toddler who has never had a parent, and is available for adoption only after no Russian family can be found, is suffering neglect and with a wild case of scabies.

Why must these children suffer so when US and other foreign parents are begging to adopt them?  That question becomes irrelevant as author, A.P. begins to see how the two main characters, the mama-want-to-be and the toddler meet and the tale that follows.

Snippet of When Two Souls Collide
 He lays there with his bottle propped against the old woolen blanket with the nipple cut out so the keifer will flow faster.  You see, no one caretaker has had the time to hold the babies in their ward. There are too many mouths to feed and not enough help to rock the whimpering babies or even to make eye contact with each one. The babies are used to it.  It's all they know.  If they are lucky, there feral brains develop a shell of survival instinct that takes over so their human hearts don't break.  Some manage to stay alive despite the eerie silence and lack of touch or care.  The babies learn early on that crying won't get them anything.

Their only language, crying, means nothing.  If they live, minimal food and shelter is all they are afforded. The orphanage is poor. Young birth mothers are scolded for visiting their babies in the orphanage because it only makes the children cry more later and expect to be held.  That won't do.  After all, the caretakers of the babies, the mamushka's, don't want to see the babies suffer more than necessary.  No visiting is best.  No extra attention is best.  Stealing a little of the babies' bread and milk to feed their own children at home is justified.  The salary is so low and the hours are so long-it is their right to take a small portion for themselves, right? Taking just one toy from the babies' small collection for their own uses is "just borrowing."  No one will notice...except the babies have just a little less to live on.  After a while, the baby house desensitizes the workers to the ophan's lightless plight.  Most know the orphans are the plague of society anyway, or else they wouldn't be there. 

He's waiting and she's waiting, but the people and rules in between are not for the faint of heart.

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