Baby Girl

After her arrest, my mother was deported to South Korea. I never saw her again. It’s funny, many nonadopted people have asked me if I’ve tried to find her, and when I say I haven’t, they often react with surprise. But other adopted people seldom ask me about whether I’ve tried to find my birth parents, and when they do, they’re never surprised when

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Thirty-five years ago, I would have had no chance to have children with a biological link to their father; Penelope and Justin would not exist. How can I long for that world? Thirty-five years ago, people I loved made disastrous decisions that made perfect sense within the context of the world they knew, the moment in which they had to act. They we

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