Area couple adopt dangerous black teen

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When Tyler and Susan Weir realized that their 20-year high school reunion was coming up, they had no idea how they were going to outdo the generosity and success of their graduating class.

Life had changed an awful lot since Susan had graduated from Astoria High School back in 1997. There would surely be at least one lesbian couple at the reunion. And there were bound to be a few missionaries who had recently been building hospitals in third world countries. There might even be a transgender person there. And to a self-absorbed attention-hound like Susan Weir, that could only mean one thing: competition.

"I didn't want to go to my reunion and watch somebody else steal the show," Susan admitted. "I want people to be talking about me."

So, after months of tireless online research, Susan finally decided on something that would inevitably top anything her former classmates could ever think of. And with Tyler's approval, they adopted a troubled and dangerous black teenager.

L'Kwandrick Jackson, May 2015.

L'Kwandrick Jackson is a sixteen-year-old from Linthicum Heights, MD. Recently displaced after both of his parents were jailed due to incidents occurring in the Baltimore protests, Jackson had been living in a group home, where he was scheduled to be euthanized later this month.

But as soon as the Weirs met him, they knew that he was the one. So they packed his bags and flew him back to Oregon, where they immediately began working on immersing him in Clatsop County's culture.

"I absolutely adore having him around," remarked Tyler.

"Not only do we have the ability to instill our own personal values in someone else," Susan added. "But we can learn from him, as well. The movies he watches, the music he listens to; all of it is new to us. And we feel safer having him around. We experienced a break-in the other night while Tyler and I were away in Hillsboro. It was the first time anyone had ever broken into our home. To know that L'Kwandrick was hiding under his bed when it happened just kills me inside. He must have been terrified. He even helped us look for any missing items. Sometimes I think his heart is even bigger than his 'fro."