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[quote=Anonymous]I’m an adult adoptee, though an international transracial adoptee. My relationship with my adoptive parents is good. Were my parents perfect? No, of course not. They parented according to the prevailing adoption framework of the time. I have an adopted sibling (we’re best friends) and was close-ish with my cousins growing up. I say close-ish because we lived a 12 hour car ride away from them so distance was a factor for sure.

I have met my birth family and am grateful they opened their arms to me.  My birth parents were married and remained married until birth father’s death. It’s sort of an unbelievable story which I don’t want to get into here. While I am truly sorry for the pain it caused my birth family, I don’t regret being adopted as it means I wouldn’t have the life and family I have today. I can’t wish my own family away, you know? And I can see how my adoption benefited my birth family as much as it did me, as well as how it revealed unthinkable and unforgivable betrayal at the same time.

In turn, I adopted a child from the same country.  Their adoption story is way more complex than the stereotypical unmarried young mother story. 
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