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Im in almost the EXACT situation only my lil girl is almost 18months old. Her bio-parents rights were involuntarily TPR by CPS and we have had her since she was 3 months old. Her bio-parents are my nephew and his gf. She does NOT know bioparents and has called me mom since about 6months. We will finalize soon but I have been signing all paperowork and everything as mom...and yes explaining as needed too. The thing is it does not matter to me who gave birth to her...just like it wont matter to her....she knows Im her mommy. We have decided that she will know that she is adopted...and we have started by showing her her babybook that I made which says she is adopted. But we will wait awhile before she knows the whole truth. (as in CPS involvement who were bio-parents are)! It was a VERY tough case including alot of abuse and neglect and we dont want her knowing any of that at too young of an age. I would definately stop telling people that she is your neice, it could start confusing er. I think things will come in time! Good Luck!