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My husband knows to quickly turn the channel if we happen to be surfing through and land on one of the shows that spotlight adoption reunions because I always end up invariably yelling at the TV out of sheer frustration at only portraying that first, highly emotional, almost always tear-jerking moment of the initial adoptee/birth mother hug. To me, it’s kind of setting adoptees (and birth parents and adoptive parents) up for failure. Although it was truly an incredible, joyous…..
Although being adopted wasn’t completely unique, I quickly realized that being adopted in the era that I was and finding my biological parents nearly on accident and developing the relationships we did, was absolutely unique. For a number of years, friends, family and acquaintances that heard the story always said, “what an incredible story! you should write a book!” It turns out that the story got a lot more interesting than just the headline of “adopted child finds biological parents”…..
Hello and welcome to all of my readers! I’m excited to share my story with all of you and walk you through not only my journey as an adoptee that found her biological parents, but also the journey of all of the messy life that happens before and after that that you don’t see on all of the adoption reunion shows. A little bit about me: I’m currently a married mother of two adult daughters and along with a successful…..
