Articles Book III - Pg 300-560 (Birthparents) - triadoption

Giviug a baby,'.in love and hope ' 1
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Dear Slrler Moon-I read your: .', I waA you lo know that on each of
letter to January Love and you ended the wonderful gift you have glven us. 1
, with a prayer that the daughter you so thank God and ask Hlm in some way to
f unaelilthly and lovlngly gave away fat let my chlld's "natural" mother knob
adoptlon will someday flnd you. that she dld the rlght thlng.
I undent'hd and
Please know that your chlld Is no
YOU. I am the mother of two beau!ifu? very much lbved and happy
adopted chlldren. 1
she knowa that you loved her when you
As I 'write thls, my S-~ear-old' . gcve her to us hnd still do now.
daughter is "reading" a poem l c got
for her blrthday from her aunt +at I know You never forget you;'
week. . . ehlld, erpeclally on her blrlhday. '
She la a.beautlful; I?lelllgent, loving. That 16 why I pray for you on that
child. Both she and ,my son' know' speclal day, that your heart will be at
lomewhere they have 0 wonderful 1 reat and that you will know In my heart
"natural" mother who. gaye blrth to I wlll be eternally grateful to you and ,
them.
to all the "natural" mothera who gave
. They know how much she lovedl forth a chlld In love and hope for
them, but for many reasons was unable adoatlam. . .
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1 to keep thtm. , . You, and the others like you, have ,
'01 becruse her love was great.
~UI~III~~ our i~ves. I WI sign with the
h::lhlr deo t " h " , ~ ~ name ~ ~ qur r ~ daughter ~ . calls her Daddy.
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I ' MY B~lIlerbaII
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Dear Ann: h a woman who Please advise adoptees that . know the pubUc. We phone year. He was a heavy smoker
gave up a chlld for adoption, unexpected exposure of the people '
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mornlng, noon and and the doctor sald hls cancer
may I expws my VleW? past can cause a great deal of ni realhe we could was caused by cigarettes.
1 Several people are ressing damage, heartache and even . rson's nerves, but, I am wrltlng to ask why'
for8 change In lcglsln P Ion (hat break up an olhcnvfse good rake (hat newspapers don't say
would glve adoplees access lo mnrrlnge. - bled Forever
our nerves, ."cancerw In Ule obllunry? I
lhelr blrth rmrds. If such (I Hope!) ' too? . see "heart nllack" often, but
1 Ieglslatlon Is passed (and. 1 Dear Sealed: I always have when I was a kld, /l cancer is rarely mentioned.
hope It Isn't) It musl MOT bc taken the posltion that ado - remember my mothef
retroactive. tlon .records should rema I' n tcnchlng us mnnncis. I'm only.
scaled -,I forever - lo io years old and it seems llke
Several ycsn when I everyone - and I shall con- manners are rnpldly golng out cnncer" In the oblluarles flve
gave my child lor
(hue to llold that Une, in splte of style.
or ten IImes he would have
'hey" Ihat
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my of mountlng prcssurc from We talk to at 'least a lven up cl areltes Ion
rsor s would remaln senled
the opposition, .. hundred peo le e day, Would !elore he dl2 (Ile slop e
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I tell all adoptees who wrl,e you belleve t at W per cent of smokln in 1810, but the ~ O C
(Including the chlld);
to me, "Your REAL parents (he tlmc we end u gelting o tor snl It was loo late.)
Mosl natural parenb do not are tho people who ralsed rccelvcr slammed P n our ear? Please answer In the paper.
wnnt a child of the ast lo *ou. Don't go poklng oround. Not so much as a "No. thank It mlghl glve some of lhosc
suddenly enter thelr lrves. If ..\ou may regret 11." you" OF a "Goodbye." We Just edilors an Idea. Thank you. -
my chlld ever comes lnlo MY* Dear Ann Landers: 1 am a end up talklng lo ourselves. Stocklon, CoUt
11Ie. I will sue everyone In., Ielephonl~aoUcllor. My Job Please print thla letter to let Dear Stock: Most newvolvcd.
Is"]; y, e bebt> way lo get lo coplc know there's a human s apers follow the wlsl~es of
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the cnuse of death.
Denr O.E.L.: Hcre's your I am not at all sure a
\, 1ell.r - and 1 ho ll he1 i nlcollne add1 would qull
"No, thank you" &Ckw jusPs .smoking If he rend "Mr. So.
: sccondllo say. How about It, And-So dled of lung cnnccr."
folks?
Mosl people never think II
Dear Ann Lnndera: My hus- Wlll hap en to lltctri. Il'y
bund dled of lung cancer Inst nlwnys "1 lc other fellow."
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