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I attended Mr. Simon's reading and book signing at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC on October 2.  I intended to ask him if he will be willing to dedicate as much time and effort to helping his daughters find their first families if they choose to do so as he and his wife dedicated to securing their adoptions.  However, the bookstore owner closed questions after a mere 5 questions (mine would have been question #6)...having opened the q/a by stating that she did not want the conversation to degenerate into an argument about open versus closed records.  With that sort of supportive censorship, I fear that Mr. Simon will continue to publicize his one-sided version of adoption.

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