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Why I Started Looking For My Birth Parents

Why I Started Looking For My Birth Parents

My birth parents had always just been this vague concept... But it was in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve that I realized there were two very real people out there somewhere who gave me life.

Breaking the Ice on International Waters

Breaking the Ice on International Waters

One day, we were standing on the upper deck sipping boat drinks and inhaling the ocean breeze.  My biological dad and I were choking back emotion as we talked about this second chance we were given to know one another.

6 Ways My Adoptive Parents Supported the Search for My Birth Parents

6 Ways My Adoptive Parents Supported the Search for My Birth Parents

The conversation with my adoptive parents about meeting my birth parents was not an easy one to have. It happened over a span of a lifetime, right up to the day of actually hugging my birth parents for the first time. It’s still a dialogue we keep up with, as they have now re-entered my life as real living beings, instead of this idea I had of who they could be.