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A Home for Norman

Date
November 21, 2012 |
Washington Blade
Joey DiGuglielmo

Norman Moore loves “Dora the Explorer,” playing Legos and macaroni and cheese.

“Give him those, and he’d be just fine,” his dad, Chad Copeland, says.

His other dad, Scooter Ward, calls Norman, 5, “quite an actor” and “a big ham.”

He also, “likes to be a teacher,” Ward says. “Loves to show you how to do something.”

The three of them, together since Norman was placed with them as a foster son in January 2011, became a permanent family unit last weekend when Judge Lee Satterfield of DC Superior Court signed their adoption decree. Of the 34 children adopted last weekend in DC, five were to gay male couples.