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Appeal from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (Hon. Zinora M. Mitchell-Rankin, Trial Judge)

On March 30, 2001, we dismissed the appeal in this case for lack of jurisdiction. We now deny appellant’s motion for reconsideration and issue this brief opinion explaining the reason for the dismissal.

S.J. has petitioned to adopt her four year old foster child, S.G. As part of that process, on October 4, 2000, following a hearing, the trial court waived the consent of the child’s birth parents to the adoption after finding that the consent of both parents was being withheld contrary to the best interest of the child. D.C. Code � 16-304 (e) (1997). The birth parents each appealed that determination. In the meantime, it appears, the trial court terminated the visitation rights of the appellant-father, *fn1 but he took no appeal from that order.

 
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