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The Gift Inside: Update on Aaron

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Do you remember when you were young and you would see your Christmas presents all piled up underneath the Christmas tree? The mystery and suspense was almost more than you could stand! What was inside? Finally you might pull one out and shake it a little in hopes of learning a clue.  Well if your parents wrapped gifts like my dad you weren't about to find a hint! One year I opened a very heavy box full of nuts and bolts, only to be presented with a beanbag chair!  As I think about my little brother, whose only been home with us now for around 5 months I'm reminded of the gifts that are sitting under our tree.  When you adopt a child you don't really know whose inside. All wrapped up in what others have said about them, and their own personal fears, you can't really see what's there.  The first few weeks my brother was home, he tried to do everything right. Follow all the rules. A few weeks later he seemed to be doing the complete opposite! Is he complia