Though Conceived in Adultery, I Am Not an Accident, by Lori Sealy

I’m adopted and several years ago I was privileged to learn some of my back story from my birthmom.  I came crashing onto the scene under less than stellar circumstances.  My biological mom was a musician who ended up in an adulterous affair with a married man – a married man who had 6 children. […]

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It Was Because I Loved Him That I Had to Let Him Go, adoption poetry by Patricia Lawrence

It Was Because I Loved Him That I Had to Let Him Go I went through the labor, but never held him in my arms as I gave him for adoption so others saw his childhood charms. But it has always been my prayer that all these years he did know — it was because […]

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What Exceptions Do You Make? by Kyler Kiessling, born to a teen drug addict

What exceptions do you make?  What about a teenaged girl who has been testing positive for heroine and has been in and out of jail?  Should she have had the choice to abort me?  What about a baby who the doctors say will have a lot of serious health problems when she’s born?  Should my […]

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