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Welcome to our new adoption forum. Whether you want to know more about how to adopt, or want to share your experiences of adoption, this is your space.
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I am just glad there is a space like this to chat about all issues regarding adoption. Hope to find many friends in similar situation here. We can learn from each other! Great idea!:d/ :d/
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Hi, I am an adoptee, only found out about my adoption as an adult. Are there any other late discovery adoptees out there?
Aurettehttp://aurettebowes.wordpress.com
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I'm 39 year's old and found out 3 years ago. I've started my search now only. It's taken 3 years for me to build up the courage. However, now that I've started, it feels like a weight's been lifted off my shoulders. I'm also planning on telling my adoptive mother that I know about the adoption and I want to thank her for being such a wonderful mother. Hope she doesn't freek out!
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Hello, I can so relate to what you are going through. I was almost 38 when I found out. You have a long journey ahead of you, and I would be lying if I said it won't be painful, but sometimes you have to throw salt on an open wound before it can heal. The discovery about my adoption had such a profound effect on my life that I wrote a book about it. It's called Someone's Daughter and it documents my discovery, the search for my birth mother, my feelings towards my adoptive mother for not telling me, etc etc. I wrote it because I wanted to share my story especially with other adoptees like me, and you. The good news is that there is healing to be found. If you want to know more, let me know. God bless you on your journey.
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Hopefully I will be able to be a adoptive parent one day. In all the prosessed at the moment. My questions, whould you have prefered to have known from a young age that you were adopted? I am already thinking on how I will tell my two children one day. i do not want this to be a difficult thing for them. I want them to embrace life and become the best they can one day and have wonderful lives.
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