The conversation about the previous post led to me saying that it could best be answered by posting what preceded that in the memoir I'm working on, Hole in My Heart. This segment is about what happened before I found a publisher for Birthmark, the memoir I wrote in the late Seventies. It was published in 1979; the first scene below would be in the summer of 1978. Plus, as I am trying to finish this draft ASAP, I do not have the time to post much original material, so I hope in this next month you bear with me.
(Copyright, Lorraine Dusky 2013. May not be reprinted, copied, etc in any media with permission)
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guy is red in the face and so angry he is practically spitting at me as he
talks, his voice getting loud enough to attract attention from nearby tables.
He’s just found out that I am one of them—a mother who gave away a child—and
furthermore that is the topic of the manuscript his boss, Don Fine, an editor
who
