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Finding my Father: May 2011
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I just found my biological father and added another whole family into my life. Journey with us as we build a relationship. Make sure you read oldest to newest, it makes more sense that way. I've changed or may withhold some names and places to protect the privacy of the ones I love. Tuesday, 24 May 2011. In the meantime, thank you for reading our story. Why don't you tell your friends about it? The more readers the merrier! Next post is about "The Skype Call". Is that considered a cliffhanger? I have bee...
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Finding my Father: June 2011
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I just found my biological father and added another whole family into my life. Journey with us as we build a relationship. Make sure you read oldest to newest, it makes more sense that way. I've changed or may withhold some names and places to protect the privacy of the ones I love. Thursday, 30 June 2011. Email to Haley, from Linda; March 22, 2011. Oh well, soon we’ll have a face-to-face visit which I am really looking forward to! I love heart to heart, one-on-one talks! It’s hard to disappoint pe...
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Finding my Father: Our First Phone Call
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I just found my biological father and added another whole family into my life. Journey with us as we build a relationship. Make sure you read oldest to newest, it makes more sense that way. I've changed or may withhold some names and places to protect the privacy of the ones I love. Thursday, 7 July 2011. Our First Phone Call. Linda has agreed to allow me to share her thoughts about our first phone call. He was asking me to accept my husband's daughter. How could I say no? In fact, you're quite chatty, a...
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Finding Jane Doe: Christmas 2010
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Two adult adoptees talking about their experiences with adoption and searching for their first families. Monday, December 27, 2010. Cross-posted from Over A Candle. Ronni and I hadn't been sure where we would spend Christmas this year. We toyed with the idea of staying home. In the end, we opted to visit my biological family in Missouri. All of this confirms my initial opinion: I hate Chicago. If I never fly through O'Hare again, it will be too soon. I don't know why I thought this would be any d...The s...
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Finding Jane Doe: December 2010
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Two adult adoptees talking about their experiences with adoption and searching for their first families. Monday, December 27, 2010. Cross-posted from Over A Candle. Ronni and I hadn't been sure where we would spend Christmas this year. We toyed with the idea of staying home. In the end, we opted to visit my biological family in Missouri. All of this confirms my initial opinion: I hate Chicago. If I never fly through O'Hare again, it will be too soon. I don't know why I thought this would be any d...The s...
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Finding Jane Doe: July 2010
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Two adult adoptees talking about their experiences with adoption and searching for their first families. Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Spending time with my fellow adoptees the past few days was amazing. It's hard to know, even, how to explain it to someone else. Being around people who get it, really truly get it, is so freeing and validating. It allows me to be myself in a way that I don't often get to be. I don't want to feel that way around other adoptees. And I did feel more comfortable around them th...
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Finding Jane Doe: May 2010
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Two adult adoptees talking about their experiences with adoption and searching for their first families. Wednesday, May 19, 2010. They Won't Like Me. Being friends with my biological brothers (my father's sons) on Facebook has at least one serious drawback: I'm almost certain they won't like me. Hell, much of the time, I don't like myself. How can I expect people who seem to think some of my views are downright un-American to like me? Links to this post. Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Last Friday I attended a ser...
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Finding Jane Doe: August 2010
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Two adult adoptees talking about their experiences with adoption and searching for their first families. Saturday, August 14, 2010. I try not to cross-post between here and Over A Candle too much. But because of the adoption themes inherent in this post, and because I know not everyone who reads here reads there, I thought I should share this in both places. Unfortunately, I never really met anyone I got to know well enough who also did tattoos. So I sat on the impulse for over a decade. I told Devon wha...
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Finding Jane Doe: April 2010
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Two adult adoptees talking about their experiences with adoption and searching for their first families. Monday, April 26, 2010. I'm still struggling with the invitation to go the my father's family reunion. The end of the semester has been keeping me well occupied, so I haven't actually dealt with anything. I have arranged my summer travel so that I can go if I want to. And I do want to. I know that much about myself. I want to go. Curiosity, in the end, outweighs all the other hard feelings. The two gu...
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Finding Jane Doe: Parents Have Little Effect?
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Two adult adoptees talking about their experiences with adoption and searching for their first families. Friday, April 22, 2011. Parents Have Little Effect? I wrote about this on Over A Candle. But there was more I wanted to point out that was specifically adoption related. I can't help but wonder how different people would react to that? Would most adoptees say "duh"? Would adoptive parents balk or agree? Would adoption advocates be outraged? I don't know. This early in the morning, I don't even kno...
