Samantha Hines

Samantha Hines lives with her family in Newport, Rhode Island, and has been a high school English teacher for the last 23 years. Her son Edgar was diagnosed with epilepsy in October 2011 and with ADHD in October 2012. In September 2012, she began her Ph.D. in Humanities at Salve Regina University. Her blog, My Three Sons, was named by Adoptive Families as one of the Top Twenty Adoption Blogs on the Web.

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