Oregon first, but eventually someone suggested international adoption, which they nearly disregarded as too expensive. Then they learned about a little girl without legs who had been abandoned on the steps of a Buddhist temple in Thailand.

'She sounded like she was a pretty typical, normal child, which she was,' Jane said. 'We pursued it and found out that, because she was disabled, the Thai government was willing to reduce a lot of their fees.'

After a long process, Kanya came to live with her new family in Tualatin.

'I wasn't particularly looking for a disabled child,' Jane said. 'When Kanya came up, I was more concerned about whether she'd been abused and what kind of personality she had. She'd been treated pretty well in Thailand. The only thing that wasn'tas a loving homage to (see: blatant rip-off of) Deathstroke, Liefeld being a big fan of the Teen Titans comic series in general and Mr. Slade Wilson in particular. While the rival publishers have a long and storied history of plundering each others' characters for "inspiration," the extent to which Deadpool constituted a carbon copy of his DC counterpart was seen by many fans as being, well, pretty egregious (because it was). It was only in later appearances that Deadpool began to take on some of the more familiar traits which set him apart from Deathstroke, such as reliance on juvenile humor, pansexuality, and a penchant for fourth wall-breaking.

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