Tag: adoptees
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My Adoption Journey – 5E: Another Birth Family Development
It has been a while since there has been any development about my birth family search. In all honesty I had put it on the back burner to simmer until I was ready to do anything else or until something else came up. Back in August of last year, I posted on the results of…
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My Adoption Journey – 5D: Birth Family Update
So…is the suspense killing you???? 😛 The results at the beginning of June revealed that…HS is NOT my biological family!!! 😮 Yep…after all that assumption that if I were to search I would find them, it seems that I am actually even less able to find my biological parents than those who were given zero information. To be…
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My Adoption Journey – 5C: Birth Family Update
The end of May arrived and about once a week I would check the website for an update on the DNA results, though I knew they would also send an email. Since both samples were under my account, I could switch back and forth on what was being revealed. My mind was swinging back and forth…
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My Adoption Journey – 5B: Birth Family Update
To continue…. So, two years later, I received an email from HS inquiring as to how I was and apologizing for not writing sooner, but that she needed time to process. She asked me to connect with her on Kakao Talk, which is the Korean version of WhatsApp. So, I did. We exchanged a few…
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My Adoption Journey – 5A: Birth Family Update
I know that I promised some updates on my travels this summer, but as I have finally processed a bit about the results of my birth family search, I thought perhaps I would write on that today. As I was just going back over this blog, I realized that my last posting on this topic…
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_The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child_ by Nancy Newton Verrier
_The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child_ by Nancy Newton Verrier Over a year ago, I found my first foster mother in the States. In our first telephone conversation she mentioned this book to me and recommended it. When I was in Korea in 2009, someone there had also mentioned this book saying how it…
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Lost Daughter…
Yesterday, I read this article on the blog “Lost Daughters”. It hit home in many ways as it relates to being caught between worlds and struggling to not only find my place, but to be accepted for the place that I have found. There is one place in the world where I felt totally ‘normal’…
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Blogging Away…
Lately, I’ve been considering a new future blog. It won’t happen until I finish my PhD because really I don’t need yet another blog or way to use up my time…. However, I’m torn. I’ve got this blog, my professional blog and started an ADPOV blog that lies dormant. I barely keep this one up…
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Adoptee Deportation/Citizenship Challenge
I’ve been following this blog for a while now. It’s one of the few blogs by adoptees that is more positive or should I say objective about both sides of the adoption issue. One topic that has come up lately has been about citizenship for international adoptees. Mostly I haven’t participated or even read much…
