#flipthescript #adoption Today, as I look at photographs of my relatives and me comparing hands, I reflect on the symbolism of my index finger that day. The same finger that comfortably traced my mothers writing as I imagined what reunion would be like moved vulnerably against crisp sheets of paper to be painfully laid open and bleeding at the very moment I saw my connection to my blood relatives restored. This is how I would describe reunion. Not a march off into the sunset as romanticized narratives on The Lifetime Chanel need us to believe. But an experience of being vulnerable, feeling joy but also feeling discomfort and even pain. Its being a witness to pain and to joy in another person. Yet, for a great many of us, it is an experience that we would not trade for the world. declassifiedadoptee/2015/01/happy-reunionversary-9-things-ive.html
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:52:38 +0000
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