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Were good conversation pieces!” joked Josephine.
“It’s like having all your best friends living with you,” Tara said, in a more serious vein. “Best friends that you can talk to, with each one about different things.”
Do they ever feel displaced?
Tara shakes her head no. The international brothers and sisters make a big show of bending over to hear David’s answer. “Only when they kick me out!” he said, laughing up at the assembly. “Not often, and if I do, I just put myself back in place.”
The crowd in the kitchen grows, swelled by the other international students and their Rappahannock brothers and sisters, their boy friends and girl friends, all getting together for the pizza party. It’s a bittersweet occasion, the kick-off in a final series of gatherings before the adopted, adapted Americans take off their blue sunglasses and return home.
“This is a grieving time,” Dawn Fisher acknowledged. “If your own children go away, you krtdW thfey’ll come back. When your inteMuttfonal children leave, you don’t know that. And you miss them — you miss them terribly.” But the Fishers now worry only about what could happen in the world to keep them apart. They no longer fear that their international children will choose not to come back to their second family and their second home in Washington, Virginia.
Rodrigo returned after eight years, a grown man. Kirsten came back after finishing business management school, bringing her boyfriend Olaf to meet Mom and Dad, sister Tara and brother David. Josephine came back to college. Thomas swears he’ll return.
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