'People would ask me, 'Is she really your daughter?''
or going through a formal process, Jeena and Drue opted to adopt via kinship — where a family adopts a relative's child — when Claridy's biological parents were sent to prison.
"There were a lot of bumps in the road at first because Claridy actually went to two other homes before arriving at ours," said Jeena."Even though she wasn't officially in the system, her mother just didn't want us to have her. Ultimately, both of the homes she went to had said that the situation wasn't the right fit for them.
For Claridy, making sense of the fact that her mom didn't look like her took a little finesse, especially because she was born in North Dakota, where there aren't that many Black residents.
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