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Showing posts with label ALMA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ALMA. Show all posts
Thursday, August 17, 2017

What's the matter with closed adoption? EVERYTHING

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Lorraine Sometimes it is necessary to remind new readers that adoption--particularly closed adoption--is far from the altruistic instit...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

When you give up a child--Jane's story

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Jane When I was in the hospital after my daughter Rebecca's birth, I began crying inconsolably. I told a nurse/aide, whoever she wa...
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Marriage after relinquishing a child--a good man helps

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Celebrating our 25th anniversary  Today is our 33rd wedding anniversary and after we did a quick stop at a church yard sale this mornin...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Helen Gurley Brown Gave Early Ink to Adoption Reform

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Helen Gurley Brown in 1964 Helen Gurley Brown was a friend of mine. She was one of the few editors back in the day when I was "com...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

When "Adoption" Can't Be the Problem...But It Is

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Jane Sometime ago, I played duplicate bridge every week with an older woman, Nellie. Over the course of several years, my bridge partner ...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

A Sweet Decision May Foretell the Ending of Patents on our DNA

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A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday (3/29/10) struck own patents on two human genes related to breast and ovarian cancer, saying that the...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

A Conversation about Open Records for Adopted People

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Why has it been so damn difficult to give adopted people their original birth certificates? To do away with the noxious sealed-record laws a...
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