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Legacy (Paperback)
George a Morrow, Jeanette Morrow, Renee Clark
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I was born in Canada in 1940. Pregnancy outside of marriage was a
disgrace and young women who found themselves in such situations
were whisked away and dumped into convents or hospitals. Babies
were taken out of the arms of young mothers, often without their
consent and sold to married couples. They were smuggled across the
U.S./Canadian Border. Papers were forged or destroyed. They were
called "black market babies." I was one of these children. Black
Market Baby reveals my life growing up as an adoptee . . . with its
inherent sense of rootlessness, abandonment and denial. The writing
of this book made my adoption real to me - the shame of unwed
mothers, the shame of being different, the shame of being abandoned
by my own mother and born of a questionable past. My parents didn't
tell me until I was eleven years old, a mistake made by many, and I
lived most of my adult life ignoring the fact of my true origins.
It wasn't until I was forty-eight that I began to face the truth
and start searching. This story exists on many levels: adoption,
divorce, politics, mystics and psychics, backpacking into the
wilderness to find solace, facing health issues, dealing with three
daughters, dropping out of the cliched housewife existence to
living the alternative lifestyle of an artist, which has always
been my secret desire. It shows the difficulties of coping with the
truth about my life and facing the realities of who I am . . . it
is a story of discovery.
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