Although I loved my adoptive parents, I always had the burning desire to know of my origins.
After nearly twenty years, I found my birthmother had died and I never did meet her. Twenty- five years later I found my sister who vanished before she was one year old.
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Read posts about my adoption experience:
- 22nd Annual Why Mom Deserves a Diamond contest
- 23rd Annual Contest Announced
- A Beautiful Word
- Adoption Court Summary. PG. 2/3.
- Am I Entitled to my Birth Certificate?
- Birth Certificates
- Born from the Stars
- Chapter 1. Primal Beginnings
- Chapter 3. From Crayons to Confusion
- Chapter 4. Second Search
- Courage
- Dear birthmother
- Death Certificates of Betty Price, Carl Price, and Debra Ann Christensen
- Deborah Kay’s Birth Certificate
- Deborah Kay, We Will Never Stop Searching for You
- End of Search is Beginning of Another
- First Love
- Goodbye, Dad
- Happy Birthday, Deborah Kay
- He found his birth family 35 years later. Then he helped them find a ‘vanished’ sister.
- Help Find My Sister
- How I became Diamond Mike
- I am Adopted
- I Found My Sister
- I Never Asked to be Born
- I would have still loved you
- Infant is my name
- Inside the Womb
- Is God Inside or Outside Us?
- Is This the End?
- Just call me Diamond Mike
- Kitten in a Box
- Living Now While Preserving the Past
- Memories of Love
- My Birthmother’s Second Husband
- My Original Birth Certificate
- Newport Jeweler’s Contest Honors Moms as a Reflection of His Life’s Journey
- One Year Ago
- Police Report
- Primal Beginnings (From Adopted Like Me)
- Secret Agent 27
- Senate Bill 91
- The Amulet
- The Death Certificate
- The Glass Swan
- The Graduation
- The Life of an Adoptee
- The Lost Sister
- The Marriage License Application
- The Mountain to Paradise
- The Postcard
- The Power of Intention
- The Record of Adoption
- The Secrets of the Universe
- The Small Farm
- The Story of Mother’s Day
- The Tombstone
- The Truth Must Be Revealed
- The Wholeness of Truth Outweighs the Pain of the Past
- There’s No Shame in Origins
- Thirty Years and a Tiny Dream
- Three Wedding License Applications
- To A Birthmother
- To Adoptees: Enjoy the Ride of your Journey
- To My Adoptive Mom
- To those Who Love Us
- Two moms
- Vote for Diamond Mike!
- We Are Going to Find You
- We Have the Right to Wonder
- We will find you, Deborah Kay
- What Happened to Deborah Kay?
- What Happened to my Chubby-Cheeked Sister?
- Where Am I Going?
- Why Mom Deserves a Diamond, Inc.
- Would I Be the Same Person?
- Young Girl’s Homage To Mom Among 2 Entries In O.C. To Win Diamond This Mother’s Day