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Katie Dawson, Yale (Jr., F) Ann Arbor, Mich...
...DeBoer contracted an infection on her honeymoon, had a hysterectomy and so cannot have children of her own. She heard about Cara through a friend in Iowa and began negotiating to adopt the baby. After Jessica was born on Feb. 8, 1991, Robby and her mother drove from Ann Arbor to Iowa through a fierce snowstorm to see the child and set the proceedings in motion. They got signed parental-rights releases from both Cara and Scott, and the DeBoers' joy was complete. They were now Jessica's legal custodians, and in six more months, the adoption would be finalized...
...still has not met Dan -- but she did meet her new grandmothers, when they appeared unexpectedly in Ann Arbor last month. They watched Jessica play, they bathed her. "They were nice," Roberta recalls, and she told Jessica to call them Grandma. As they were leaving, Roberta recalls, Cara's mother thanked her and said, "Take good care of our baby." "I said, 'Well, don't you think we've done a pretty good job in the last 2 1/2 years?' She just looked at me real funny and turned and walked away. It literally tore me to a million pieces...
...Arbor, it's beyond belief. The football stadium holds over 90,000. And they still sell standing-room-only for the Ohio State or Notre Dame game...
Ireland's appeal evidently struck a note with all ages. At the end of the question-and-answer session, 13-year-old Ryan Foster of Ann Arbor, Mich., stepped to the microphone to ask, "I'm really young, so I can't do much, but I'm wondering what I can do to help the women's movement...