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The Girls Who Went Away
I spent the last few days devouring Ann Fessler’s The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade. I read the book...
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Signatures
The letter my birth mother received from a court-appointed confidential intermediary on the last day of January in 2009 looked like junk mail. The return address was typed, and the label with her name...
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Paper Chase
I’ve spent the last five days hopping on and off CTA trains–brown to red to blue to red to brown–and ducking in and out of library archives and government offices and a hospital. Tonight, after...
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