[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: birth mothers told not to think about child

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

When an adoptee says: I'm not interested in searching....

Lorraine and daughter Jane, in NYC a few months after they first met

"Have you seen Philomena?" one friend after another has asked me. "What did you think?"

Yes, I saw it and Yes, I liked it, wondering what they are actually asking. Like what is there not for me to "like" about Philomena? My brother asked about the nuns, others have asked about the slamming of the Church, and I tell them that yes, it was like that in Ireland and not much damn better in the U.S. I have a first mother friend who was told by a priest that she had to think of her daughter as "dead." (They are happily reunited today.)

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