Family Beginnings ‘Beyond the Traditional’: Michael McSurdy – ‘Adopting a 27-year-old man’

Michael McSurdy - Nashville - September 7, 2017

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1997, working at the College of Social Work at UT. Michael met Michael a really neat, smart 16 year old kid who just wanted to finish high school and go be an adult. Michael brought Michael home and helped him with this goal. This is the story of how over the next 10 years a kid who didn’t want a family got one.

 

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