Dear Abby: While cleaning out my attic yesterday, I found a
letter that my daughter wrote to you a few years ago when she
was 13. She was responding to a poem that had appeared in your
column, “Legacy of an Adopted Child.”  She was going through a
very trying time and was being bullied because she was adopted
and looked very different from her parents.  My daughter is
grown now and is a delightful, successful young woman. That poem
helped her greatly. Can you reprint it for others?  – Proud Mom
in Greenville, S.C.  Dear Proud Mom: With pleasure. The poem is
part of my “Keepers” booklet.  Legacy of an Adopted Child
(Author Unknown)  Once there were two women  Who never knew each
other.  One you do not remember,  The other you call mother.
Two different lives  Shaped to make yours one.  One became your
guiding star,  The other became your sun.  The first gave you
life  And the second taught you to live it.  The first gave you
a need for love  And the second was there to give it.  One gave
you a nationality,