Always be a poet, even in prose. 

Charles Baudelaire

Mary Ellen Gambutti, Author
I'm a writer, an adopted person,
and a stroke survivor, and a friend.

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    Welcome to my writing world - I'm so glad you're here!     
    Words and music are my earliest memories. Language and writing were my first loves in school. I've kept up some form of word-stringing most years--only in the most difficult times letting go of the jottings, notes, lists, letters, and poetry. 
    All of it came to a halt with a brain hemorrhage in June of my fifty-eighth year. While home recovering after a lengthy rehab, I began to take online writing courses. I found memoirs. I was, once again, captured by the beauty of words and meaning, and began to record my experience in personal essays. Writing permitted me to take stock of life-changing events and has been therapeutic and life-affirming.
    My husband, Phil, and I now live in Lewes, DE with our fourteen-year-old Chihuahua, Maxwell, rescued from a Miami shelter.

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    I invite you to explore my site pages.

    Mary Ellen Gambutti
    • Dec 4, 2021

    Adoptees and Allies: The Importance of Unity

    Looking back on November: NAAM, National Adoption Awareness Month The power of adoptee voices was demonstrated in full measure last month on social media. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter were inundated with posts by adoptees who have found their voices--long-time advocates of adoptee rights--and those who have just begun to talk about their experiences in confronting unjust adoptee law. We may have reached new heights in awareness. It would be interesting to know to what ext
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