Adoption: The Primal Wound: An Adoptee Rips Open The Headlines!!!!!

I've mocked The Primal Wound mercilessly.

Anna talks sense about brands.   I sat down and designed a little logo so I could advertise and plan to do more!  And please spread the word in the adoption community!!!...wait a minute, I'm getting off topic.... and realized that, as she astutely puts it, your brand emerges as you blog.

I remember posting a "Oh Gosh! I forgot!  I'm adopted!" post at the very beginning of my blog.  Let me go look for it...hold on.... 

Here is my first post.  Hello World! 

A few posts later, I posted an Oh Gosh! I forgot that I'm adopted! post. 

I don't even recognize that girl.   Girl, okay? I'm from the South. We call each other girls down here till we say, "That ol' girl looked pretty good at her viewing today."

I am a Southern girl, born and bred.  I yam what I yam.  

I am also adopted.

And I adopted.

 

It was so nice, I did it twice.

  

The Primal Wound is about the lifelong damage suffered by babies who are separated from their mothers at birth.

I'm reading it.   I'm going to report back to you,and I promise to be honest, and I mean mercilessly honest.  I will explore this from the vantage point of an adopted child, and ask my own adopted children about things.

I will not name names and I will not print anything they have not approved.

But it's going to be an interesting journey.  Come along, won't you?  I'm going to be trending on this for a couple of weeks.

Plus extra special super exciting bonus news!!

I FOUND MY HALF SISTER ON FACEBOOK.

WHAT DO I DO?  Please think about what I should do and let me know when I get around to telling you the details.

What would YOU do if YOU got an email from a total stranger claiming a mother in common?   What would reassure you?   What would make you close your browser and run screaming into the night?  Should I wait until after the emotion of Christmas dies down, or should I grab the moment when we're all pondering families, some happily, some not so happily?   

P.S. Unless you have never looked at the face of a person who shares your DNA, and are perfectly okay with that, please don't tell me to leave it alone.   If you fit in this category, let's talk privately. Hit me up on FB.   

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