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In reply to the discussion: I had a personally staggering, explosive weekend - in a good way. Wanted to share. Adoptees note. [View all]calimary
(84,945 posts)45. Mainly I found out I have honest-to-God family, in the biological sense.
And I do feel rooted. Moreso than ever before. I always felt this weird sense of being artificially grafted-on, before now. There's this sense of belonging that I never really had. Til now. And then to discover that my initially-reticent brothers came around and have embraced me too - and the oldest brother's wife, too. And their daughter called during the Friday night dinner and wanted to say hello to me as well. Funny enough - she, my niece, and I have the same birthday! That one won't be hard to remember, certainly!
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I had a personally staggering, explosive weekend - in a good way. Wanted to share. Adoptees note. [View all]
calimary
Oct 2013
OP
It's just turning my head inside out and upside down. In a good way, of course.
calimary
Oct 2013
#4
NO no no no no no no no you did NOT hijack anything here! Shit, CoffeeCat, that is PART of it!!!!
calimary
Oct 2013
#11
Nope! Not touching the floor yet. Don't know if they ever really will, completely, ever again.
calimary
Oct 2013
#38
I'm not just in the mood to use bouncing frogs - I feel like I AM a bouncing frog today!
calimary
Oct 2013
#46
Shit, unionthug777 - I'm starting to be a mess all over again, just reading this.
calimary
Oct 2013
#35
Oh calimary, what a wonderful story and you told it so beautifully. I agree with you, your life
monmouth3
Oct 2013
#28
Yeah, they just always were fully open about that. From the very earliest I can remember.
calimary
Oct 2013
#44
YEAH! No kidding, LittleGirl! That was one of the first things we said to each other at the
calimary
Oct 2013
#93
Half. There was only information about the mother in the paperwork we received.
calimary
Oct 2013
#40
I sometimes take my big, raucous family for granted. Thank you for your insight.
joanbarnes
Oct 2013
#70