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| May 01, 2008 | Livesey, Margot | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

After losing her mother and becoming estranged from her father, Margot Livesey found a new home--and the unexpected privileges of adopting one's parents.

On a wet July Sunday last year, seventeen people, aged fourteen to 85, assembled on the shores of Loch Tummel to celebrate my adopted mother's eightieth birthday. The loch is one of several places where Queen Victoria is rumored to have paused on her tour of the Scottish Highlands to praise the scenery, and, as children, we often came here to sail or camp. When we asked our mother, Merril, how she'd like to celebrate her birthday, a picnic in this hallowed place was what she wanted. So we gathered that Sunday, ...

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