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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.
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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.
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