Active After 35 Thrive To 105

Karen DeBolt is one of my sisters. Listen to Karen’s story of love, reality, and growing up as a black person, with extreme disabilities, in a white family. Learn where she is today, over 50 and making her big sister so proud. The DeBolt Family is well known for the adopted children and blended biological families making a total of 20 children with almost as many physical challenges. Karen DeBolt’s interview, 45 years later is a testimony to the strength of love and bonding under the most convoluted dynamics imaginable! We are a family of 20 siblings, many of them adopted. Thus, when Karen is black and I am white; when Karen is 16 years younger than I; when Karen and I grew up in a family that was far from “normal” she faced obstacles that, as her white, older sister, eluded me until I understood, much later in life, that “love does not conquer all”. Love does make a HUGE difference! Karen’s story reflects on her life from being adopted at age 5 to her life now, having passed the half century mark. It has had