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Baby Girl
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 I say I haven’t. Why try to find someone who did not want you in their life?
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
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
... See moreLaura Lippman • Wilde Lake
Martha’s not my child, I’d say, as if I was joking, as if my feelings weren’t hurt. I would say: She’s my roommate. Now I can say, she was not my child, but she was the first member of my family. Martha was my best friend and my witness. I had been on my own for so long, swimming upstream, and now I had a partner in it. There’s a bright line betwee... See more
Jean • My best friend and my witness
What started as a personal quest to unravel the mysteries of birth and death became central to my professional work as an adult.
Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
I still find it hard to reconcile my deep belief in the healing power of the relationship between a doctor and a patient with the reality that we doctors are easily replaced.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
And my involvement in my parents’ care always put me at risk of being seen by their doctors as intrusive.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Everything’s looking very good. Ready to meet the little one? I think so. What else can she say amid the banal, undramatic language of the medical world? How will I be a mother? Will I feel love?
Sarah Hall • The Wolf Border
our longing to give our child the best of all possible lives.