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ADOPTION
I wonder what 'i t would be like if I did not know
who my mother was?
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Or, not to be able to tell my friends what time
I was born
Or, not to know my original last name .....
I wonder what it would be like to not be able to
show snap shots of me when I was born, or when I was young
also, wonder what it would be 1 ike to say to my friends,
''1 was adopted"
And, hear them say, "Oh, wow! That's weird"
Or, have them say I was lying.
I don't think I would want to be adopted
-- But I Am.
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by Frank Smith
14 'year old adoptee
DEAR M r 1 l
I ' M SIJRE YOU DID \LJIIATS BEST
I was found i.n a basket in deepest snow.
wearing no name tag, yet a clesire to know.
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Was my mother short or tall?
Di.d she know my father or not at all?
Was I born in the East or way out West?
[>ear mother, I ' m sure you di.d whats best.
!tl~r~ yo11 sad t:he day you gave me away?
01- for you was it: just anokher day?
(To an adopted child)
Yes, dear mothel-, you clid whats best.
Fleur C Hoyl iger \inti1 I fi.nc1 you T won't be at rest.
Submitted by May Boyden
IInve llou thouqht about finding me at all?
01- wnitinq for me ko give you a call?
Not flesh of my flesh I' won' I: qive up my search for your face.
Nor Bone of my Bone, i' 1. i.v~ for the clay that we embrace.
But s ti 11 miraculously
my own t)c,nr mother, I sure you did whats best.
Mothe:,, l"rm sure you did whats best.
Never Forgot
r1rn sure you clid whzts hest.
for a single minute
Whats best?
You didn't grow under my
heart
BUT IN IT.
taken from DEAR DAUGHTER
by Kathy Wudel
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