Tag: adoption
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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…
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Adoption Journey – 3B
During the conference, I took an afternoon and called Diane. It was so wonderful to talk to her! 😀 Unfortunately, my phone died mid-conversation and it took me a while to get it charged back up due to not bringing a plug converter…so much for all my packing experience! Anyway, it was like a light…
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Adoption Journey – 3A
Well, remember back when I wrote saying that I was waiting to hear back from someone I had found on Facebook about being my 2nd or first US foster mother? It was her!!! She wrote back and I have replied. It seems surreal. I actually have no memory whatsoever of this person, but from the…
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My Adoption Journey – 4
I am wondering if this falls under ‘Adoption Journey’ or if I should be starting a new thread entitled ‘The Search’…? Anyway, I guess it all runs together in the end as MY LIFE! So, the latest – Three days ago now, I received an email from the social worker in Korea. She said that…
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My Adoption Journey – 3
So, now that I am ‘free’ish again, I am focusing my attentions on more details of my adoption journey. Thanks to the world of Facebook, I have found a couple more possible people and written them messages. Diane Ehnes – who was my foster mother between adopted family 1 and 2. I found someone who…
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My Adoption Journey – 2A
An update on what I’ve learned so far – A woman who lives at the number that was left in the post called me back. She said that Cathy used to live with her, but that she hasn’t heard anything about her for 12 years. She said the last she heard, Cathy had moved to…
