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Painful truths.
The first painful truth I learned about my adoption is that my mother is dead. I did not realize it would be the first in a sequence of painful truths. Here is a painful truth: My mother gave me up to… more →
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Painful truths.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: The first painful truth I learned about my adoption is that my mother is dead. I did not realize it … more →
Lost and found.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: I like my mother’s family, at least those of them I got to meet. They are really nice people. … more →
I have returned.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: Well, I made it back. I’ll write a full update when I have time, but overall things went very … more →
See you next Wednesday.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: I’m coming back on Tuesday but I realized I probably won’t get around to blogging until … more →
Watching you without me.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: I realized recently that I much prefer looking at pictures of my mom from when she was younger, from … more →
Oh, how I miss adoption fog.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: The day I meet my mother’s family is approaching rapidly and now I wish I didn’t have to … more →
What is reunion?
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: In a little more than a week, I will go to Texas to meet my mother’s family. This is what the … more →
I guess I'm not adopted enough.
iBastard wrote 2 years ago: What follows is grumpy writing about forum drama that I’d rather just put behind me. I’m … more →
What's so funny?
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: One thing I’ve noticed about adoptees is that most of us seem to have a wicked sense of humor. … more →
Sad, mad, or just bad?
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: I haven’t made it all the way through The Girls Who Went Away yet. I’m stuck on the … more →
The personal and the political.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: I started this blog with the intention of focusing on my personal experiences as an adoptee, specifi … more →
Pictures of a lost childhood.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: My favorite picture of my mom is one from when she was 18 that was taken at an angle that suggests s … more →
Fathers Day post mortem.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: I never know whether and where to use an apostrophe with Fathers Day, Mothers Day, etc. I asked the … more →
Childhood's end.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: As best as I can tell, I had a normal childhood for about 85 days. It was about then that I was reli … more →
I'm so glad to give you my condolences.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: I just finished the second letter to my aunt. The letter that I had wanted to put in the mail early … more →
Sorry to bother you, but we're related, if that's okay with you.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: I started writing this post as a spoof of a contact letter but it came off as really bitter, and I a … more →
My a-parents' haunted house.
iBastard wrote 2 years ago: I told my a-parents yesterday. They were very supportive and genuinely cared about what I was going … more →
The call.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: The mail goes a lot faster these days than I remember. Her sister (my aunt) called. It’s true. … more →
Good mourning, stranger.
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iBastard wrote 2 years ago: The time between reading about Ruby’s death in her father’s obituary and confirming it o … more →
