Adoption

Tonight's Simpsons rerun was about adoption. Grace wanted to know what adoption was. We explained to her how some children, because of financial or other reasons, didn't have mommies and daddies. And then other parents would come and adopt those lucky little babies. Those babies would become their children. You could almost see the light bulb of illumination flash in Grace's head - and she said, the Universe having revealed one of its nagging little mysteries, "Is that what happened to me?"