1.   She left me with my adoptive mother and just disappeared.

2.   Another example Pavao offers is an adoptive mother who had come in for counseling a few days before.

3.   Best of all, the bond with her adoptive mother was strengthened, not weakened, by the discovery.

4.   After World War II, Stephen is cut off from the family fortune, abandoned by his bride, Sylvia, and introduced to her sexy adoptive mother.

5.   But he said his adoptive mother insisted on keeping the adoption secret from as many people as possible.

6.   But Lisa Collins, an adoptive mother and personal investor from Takoma Park, Md., said there was legitimate reason for concern about the orphans.

7.   He asks the adoptive mother, played by Jessica Lange, whether any bedtime stories she reads to her son, Isaiah, have black characters.

8.   He angrily confronted his adoptive mother, who died soon afterward.

9.   He invited his adoptive mother to spend holidays and vacations with him and his family.

10.   Her adoptive mother did not attend the ceremony.