Today is my son’s second birthday. Aside from a few notes in his baby book and my journal, I’ve never really written about his birth. I’m now 15 weeks pregnant with his little sister. As I prepare to do it all again, I’m reflecting on the day two years ago when I first met the tiny, wrinkly baby who has become my sweet, spirited, fearless, open, curious, affectionate child.
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Being Adopted, Part IV: Family History Revealed
You can read the earlier posts in this series here:
- Being Adopted, Introduction: The Primal Wound
- Being Adopted, Part I: An Incomplete Self
- Being Adopted, Part II: Finding the Missing Pieces
- Being Adopted, Part III: Meeting My First Genetic Relatives
In my last post in this series, I wrote about meeting my immediate biological family, my siblings and mother. But family roots, of course, go far deeper than one or two generations. I wanted to have a more complete picture of the ancestors whose genes I’d inherited.
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