The Invisible Mourner: Saying Goodbye to an Aunt I Never Met
Well…I went. I’m glad I did. I didn’t know if I’d attend Aunt *Jane’s funeral until the last minute. Even then, I sat in the church parking…
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Inheriting a Stranger
Since I began wearing makeup when I was about 15 years old, I was never the kind of girl who sat in front of the mirror for…
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Defending and Explaining in the Same Breath
The letter I wrote to my new bio sister was brief, simple and sincere. I knew I was the innocent outcome of a decision made by…
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Losing a Tree
For several years after I found out I wasn’t my Dad’s biological daughter, I couldn’t even look at his tree anymore. It was literally a full stop. …
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Three things to never say to an NPE
This is my NPE story of discovering in 2015 that my Dad was not my biological Dad. If you’d like to follow along, I encourage you to…
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Telling the Girls
I knew that eventually, I had to tell our girls about my DNA discovery. This was about their DNA, too. I had made the decision not…