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Posted August 18, 2006
                                 
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Race was a secondary adoption factor; Maggie Mebruer's parents say.
                   

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The Mebruers did not explicitly set out to adopt a black child.
                             

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Emily Mebruer, a family doctor, said a judge's ruling that she and her husband were "uniquely unqualified" to parent a black child felt like "an indictment of us and our community.
  

 

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