More than just one woman's search for information about the
biological mother she believed had died in childbirth, this book
explores the mind and feelings of an adopted child. Call Me Ella is
a heartwarming and uplifting story about a young girl who
considered her adoptive parents her "real parents," yet needed to
know more. She needed to know her roots. Her heritage. With a
burning desire to have someone who "looked like her," she couldn't
wait to marry and have children of her own. She had no idea that
her twenty-four year search, which did not begin until after both
of her parents had passed away, would involve Sopranos-like tales
of organized crime, gambling, and infidelity. Kaufman grew up
thinking she killed her mother. As a child, when her adoptive mom
answered her question, "Where did I come from?" by saying her birth
mother died in childbirth, she believed in her heart she killed the
woman who gave her life. She kept asking her mom the same question,
hoping to get a different answer. Maybe she'd learn her birth
mother had been ill, that it wasn't her fault she died. When
Kaufman finally got old enough to figure out it took two people, a
man and a woman, to have a child, she asked a new question: "What
happened to my birth father? Did he die too?" That's when her mom
shot her foot through the kitchen wall screaming, "Don't ever ask
me that again." It took her years to realize why that question hit
a nerve. In New Jersey, when a baby is adopted, their original
birth certificate is sealed, making it seem as if the child did not
exist before the adoption. Kaufman never even knew her birth
mother's last name until she discovered her adoption papers a week
before her mom passed away. Unfortunately, when her mom died with
her secrets intact, she thought she'd never learn about her ethnic
background or medical history. She wasn't ready to give up. She
needed to know more. She needed to know the big secret that kept
her mom from answering her questions. With determination and the
unexpected help from a self-proclaimed "romantic" stranger, she set
out to find her roots. Call Me Ella is a memoir of love, family,
loss and perseverance. It shows how we can work to achieve our
happy endings.
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