Eight years ago Poke Rafferty an American travel writer and his Thai wife Rose adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow forming an unconventional intercultural family. That family has weathered extreme challengeseach of its three members carried the scars of a painful and dangerous historybut has stuck together with tenacity and love and a little help from some friends. Now that family is in jeopardy the birth of Poke and Roses newborn son has littered their small apartment with emotional