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Altered Book

December 27, 2009

And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. “Little Gidding” T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets I am almost finished with my altered book. This book is the central piece of my thesis for graduate school, and it explores my literal and metaphorical search for my birth mother....

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I have started to read a classic book on adoption (and geared towards adoptees) called The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child, by Nancy Verrier. Although the author is not an adoptee herself, she is the mother of an adopted daughter, as well as a biological daughter. As I read, I am finding that the subject material and her descriptions...

August 26, 2009

This was one of my favorite books as a child. It was a very popular children’s book for many. However, when it was read to me – many deeper issues welled up in my young mind, and still do to this day – as an adult adoptee. The young bird in the story has been separated from his mother and...

August 21, 2009

For Adi’s final project, she created a drawing of each of the pairs!

August 13, 2009