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In reply to the discussion: I had a personally staggering, explosive weekend - in a good way. Wanted to share. Adoptees note. [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)77. What a wonderful story!
I have two cousins who are adopted. Even though I've always known they were adopted, I've always thought of them as every bit as much my cousins as the "biological" ones. Okay, so they looked a little different from the rest of us. Big deal. One did eventually seek out her birth mother, and I don't think the meeting was a good one, but I don't know many details. She has since passed away.
The other, her brother, so far as I know has never been interested in finding his birth parents. That's his decision.
I also married a man whose oldest brother and only sister were adopted. To me, adoption is just an alternative way of forming a family.
Again, I'm so very glad you've made this connection.
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I had a personally staggering, explosive weekend - in a good way. Wanted to share. Adoptees note. [View all]
calimary
Oct 2013
OP
It's just turning my head inside out and upside down. In a good way, of course.
calimary
Oct 2013
#4
NO no no no no no no no you did NOT hijack anything here! Shit, CoffeeCat, that is PART of it!!!!
calimary
Oct 2013
#11
Nope! Not touching the floor yet. Don't know if they ever really will, completely, ever again.
calimary
Oct 2013
#38
I'm not just in the mood to use bouncing frogs - I feel like I AM a bouncing frog today!
calimary
Oct 2013
#46
Shit, unionthug777 - I'm starting to be a mess all over again, just reading this.
calimary
Oct 2013
#35
Oh calimary, what a wonderful story and you told it so beautifully. I agree with you, your life
monmouth3
Oct 2013
#28
Yeah, they just always were fully open about that. From the very earliest I can remember.
calimary
Oct 2013
#44
YEAH! No kidding, LittleGirl! That was one of the first things we said to each other at the
calimary
Oct 2013
#93
Half. There was only information about the mother in the paperwork we received.
calimary
Oct 2013
#40
I sometimes take my big, raucous family for granted. Thank you for your insight.
joanbarnes
Oct 2013
#70