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Sarah Sentilles: Loving a Stranger


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We're often given a story of birds and bees where two people fall in love and out of their love blooms a perfect little creature. But far too often and for far too many, that isn’t the case. 

Writer Sarah Sentilles always knew she wanted to be a mom, so she entered into the foster system with the hope of adopting. But the process was not as simple as she had anticipated. 

In this conversation, Kate and Sarah discuss,

  • How every child we welcome into our lives are strangers to be discovered
  • The personal cost of impersonal (and often cruel) bureaucracy 
  • How we must choose love, even if it costs us everything


Perhaps family is bigger, wider than we've been told. It is a story of belonging and loss and courageous love. And perhaps it involves learning to love a stranger.

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