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Holt adoptee Max Douglas, 21, shares a poem he wrote about — and for – his birth mother, who he has never met but hopes to some day when he returns to Thailand. "I have a really good connection with how it feels to be adopted," Max says. "Originally, I was just going to make a regular poem. As you can see, I repeated a sentence throughout the whole poem. This sentence was not put in the same place every time — it’s to help bring emotion to the poem. This is based off the song 'Everything to Me' by Mark Schultz. In the song, he conveys intense emotions about how his birth mother gave everything to him."

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