So apparently SI did some feature on Phillies stud ace Cole Hamels and used his friends and family to add some color. I did not actually read the piece myself and instead let Deadspin do the dirty work for me.
His wife, Survivor alum Heidi Strobel, discussed the plans for the family. Specifically, how they plan to adopt some AIDS riddled kids from Sengala or Ethiopia...which ever one is not fictional, they are all so confusing. This is all well and good, plenty of celebrities have taken up the cause - though I'm not so sure they have gone after the ones ALREADY infected with AIDS. The last thing anyone needs is some AIDS baby getting a little too bitey with the dog then before you know it you are putting old Yeller out to pasture, but I digress.
The real point of the story is Heidi's rationale for adopting these kids -
"We're in the process of adopting an AIDS orphan from Ethiopia. Maybe two. I'm so pumped. I'd adopt six if I could. When I was five years old-I grew up in a very rural town in Missouri, and I had never even seen a black person-they asked us to draw a picture of ourselves in the future, and I drew myself holding hands with a line of tiny black stick figures. I've always wanted this."
And cut.
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