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As an adopted person; once an Air Force dependent, I write about loss, separation, impermanence, and adoptees' rights to truthful identity and natural heritage.

An Adoptee's Riddle

of belonging

Mary Ellen Gambutti (Mel)

Aug 22, 2023

This riddle presses adoptees from the moment we are relinquished.

An Adoptee’s Riddle of Belonging

A formula of lies obliterated my origins

and  gave me 
a chance

for a better life.

What life would I have had?

Where were they,  the lost ones?

I came from those who had no power

to the ones who had what I needed to live

in a riddle of never belonging.