My name is Eliana, and in 2010 I was adopted at 2 1/2 weeks old. My birth mother chose my family because my older brother Sam was smiling in all the pictures that the adoption agency showed her. I am currently 9 years old, almost 10, and I have one Truly Me doll, two Bitty Babies, and two Wellie Wishers. I love my Bitty Baby, who I named Bella, so much that when I took her to the Doll Hospital to get repaired I just couldn’t give her up because she is so special that I couldn’t bear to leave her. I got her when I was only 2-years-old, and she is very well loved. It is very important to me that they make an adopted American Girl Doll because I think of them like they’re my sisters, and I believe that it will be important to other kids too. There are approximately 140,000 kids adopted in the USA each year (https://adoption.org/what-is-the-adoption-rate) and 1.5 million adopted kids in the USA all together. Including adults approximately 7 million Americans are adopted in all (https://adoptionnetwork.com/adoption-statistics). It makes a child’s self-esteem grow when they see people like themselves represented in toys. I have sensorineural hearing loss and it made me feel really good when I saw that they had an American Girl Doll, Joss, who also has sensorineural hearing loss.  So I think that it will make other adopted kids feel good when they see a doll who was also adopted. I also think that it is important for people to learn more about adoption and having an adopted American Girl Doll will help people to learn about adoption and diversity in the world. Therefore, based on my experience as an adoptee, it would be beneficial to many kids for American Girl to make a doll who reflects a little bit of adopted kids’ experiences and identities.