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COMMENTS: The African Scandinavian
In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, ABC followed up on the adoption angle. Ron Claiborne introduced us to Duke and Lisa Scoppa who have adopted a pair of orphans, four-year-old Erickson and the infant Thurlene. Claiborne used the newly-formed Scoppa family as a hook to publicize Outside Looking In, an autobiographical documentary made Phil Bertelsen. Bertelsen is African-American, adopted at age four by Scandinavian-Americans: "It creates a lonely feeling," Bertelsen warned. As for the Scoppas, they have no apologies about their Haitian brood. Concluded Claiborne, what the Scoppas are doing is "not wrong…just not easy."
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