Tag: adoption
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Oversaturation
One of my favorite items to use in analogies is the sponge. It works on many levels – kids at about age eight are little sponges soaking up everything new with curiosity; pain can be absorbed like a sponge, but it doesn’t mean that it has left the body until you squeeze it out, but…
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Parallelism & Coping
This year is the year of writing for me. To achieve my writing goals, I must also take on the task of revisiting my past through memories, paperwork, and quite possibly interactions. It is always interesting to observe how the Universe works when one opens up to the possibility of whatever may come. Although I…
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If I am Found, does it mean I am lost?
I have just finished watching the Netflix documentary Found. As it is National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM), which is not something I really pay much attention to but due to running The Universal Asian, I have to be somewhat aware, at least. This article from the Huffington Post made me nod quite a few times…
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You are Not Alone
The other day I was contemplating how to write the stories of my life and how to convey them in such a way that is actually of interest. I mean everyone has life stories and everyone has their own unique experiences, so why would anyone want to read mine? However, as I listened to a…
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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…
