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In our case, it's pretty obvious that Maya is adopted - she's Cambodian and looks it - waist length black hair, black eyes, dark skin, round face - you get the picture.
I look northern European - blond hair, very fair skin, green eyes.
I always thought it was pretty obvious - but it wasn't to a woman that Maya and I ran into the in the grocery store one evening. Maya was still small enough to be sitting in the cart, and this woman walked up to us and said "She's Beautiful!" Me: "Why, thank you!" Woman "You make beautiful babies! You should make lots more if they're going to look like her!" Apparently she skipped biology the day they discussed basic genetics!
I have often found myself saying something like "Joe was born in Colombia." or "Maya is Cambodian by birth". Some people figure it out, but others walk away kind of scratching their head trying to figure out how that could be!
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