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Letter 1/ Dear Skipper: Even If You Hate Me, I Will Still Try to Love You

Alice Garbarini Hurley

Oct 2, 2020·4 min read

We’re in a pickle as legal guardians, caught between a rock and a jagged hard place. “Pickle” is putting it very, very mildly.

Superman was found by two farmers, Jonathan and Martha Kent, who adopted and raised the baby boy. Image from Superman: Secret Origin #6 (October 2010). Art by Gary Frank and Jon Sibal.

I won’t share the child’s name. (If you know us, I ask you please not to share it, either.)

She is a beautiful girl — a newly minted teenager, with all that entails, including a heightened…