by KYW's Larry Kane
Produced by Jim Melwert

Fourteen-year-old Myira says she's all about style:

(Myira:)  "Get my hair done, my nails done."
(Kane:)  "Your hair looks great -- you do it yourself?"
(Myira:)  "Yes." 

Myira says she does well in school.  She's not sure what she wants to do when she gets older, but she has some ideas -- including becoming a motivational-type speaker:

"I would go out and talk to kids, do stuff like adoption and tell them what I've been through, because I've got a lot of situations that I could talk to people about."

Myira has never had a permanent family, and she gets a bit emotional when asked about adoption:

(Kane:)  "So you really would love the feeling of having a place to go, and you could call it your home."
(Myira:)   "Yes."
(Kane:)  "Does that make you angry that you never had that?"
(Myira:)  "Sometimes.  But I'm happy for kids when I hear them say 'I get to go home' and stuff, go home on the weekends. And I'm just here every single weekend, every single day."

But she says she still has a lot to offer an adoptive family.

(Myira:)  "Respect, honesty."
(Kane:)  "Would you make them proud?"
(Myira:)  "Yes."

Myira's adoption worker is Amy Homes:

"Myira is a very intelligent, beautiful young lady.  She's been waiting for adoptive family for a long time now, and she really deserves to have a family that's really going to be there for her, that she can rely on."
 
For more information, go to the web site of the Adoption Center of Delaware Valley, ACDV.org. 
 
(Photo by KYW's Ed Fischer)