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Molly's Story, Spring 2025
Molly shares her unique journey through motherhood, detailing her experiences with her wife and their two adopted children. She describes her travels around the world and her struggles with infertility, which ultimately led to the beautiful story of adopting her two children. Molly reflects on how her children grew up in Boston and thrived right before her eyes.
So I adopted a daughter. She was named Elena Eugenia Mead. The orphanage director in Latakunga said she was one year old. And we hired a woman to take care of her, to change her diapers, to give her more nutritious food, to help her learn to walk.
And then when we lived at Jackson Road, we had rocks thrown out through our window, and the kids were chalking that we were lesbians, and that's not okay.
So we adopted Marlena when she was four. I flew to Ecuador with Elena when she was seven years old. The three of us were able to stay at our, the lawyer's house in Kito.
Marlena had tantrums almost every day, and they were very tough to recognize. Marlena slept on our floor almost every night, and she wet her bed a couple of times. So we gave her pull-ups because she was four years old.
The good news is she was able to reach her family. One of the people involved in the adoption lived in Ecuador. Marlena flew to Kito and was reunited with her family. She has a half-brother named Polo. Her mother looks just like her. She was able to reach her dad as well.
Marlena did kindergarten at the preschool in Somerville, and then Marlena needed to go to Cambridge Ring in Latin. But we sent Eli to Conquer Academy, and he was a day student, so we, we dropped him off every day at the train station in, in Porter Square. And he did all four years at Concord Academy.
Elias has transitions to be a man, and we see him, like, six times a year. He lives in Dorchester. We talk all the time with Marlena. She lives in Chicopee.
I love being a mom, and I think Carol does as well, so fulfilling.