Madonna Saint to One

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Oh good Lord! This is getting ridiculous. So Madonna adopted a kid from Africa. Something about this just seems self-serving. One hopes she and her husband chose to do this because they wanted to adopt a child, THIS child. And one hopes they don't care what we all think about it. And one very very fervantly hopes that this wasn't, you know, to make some sort of political statement or to "raise awareness." We've already got our token celebrities-who-adopt-kids-from- Third-World-countries-to-make-a-statement couple (Brangelina). No more!

I can just imagine a conversation in a therapist's office on the Upper East Side 20 years from now. Angsty Adopted African: "And then she said, 'Son, I adopted you to shine a light on the problems of Africa and your country, uh, Malaga, I think it was?' And," he continues, "I have to go to every State Dinner in my (air quotes employed) "home country" for the rest of my life, where I know no one and don't speak the language. And the ceremonial beads they keep giving me aren't the kind of thing you wear at Nobu. No wonder I have a meth problem!"

The kid's only one, and already doomed to be some sort of symbol instead of just a child. Good luck kid.