What's in a Birth Certificate?

What's in a Birth Certificate?
What's in a birth certificate?    Pretty basic stuff, unless they are details you never knew.  Unless it contains a name you never knew was yours.  Unless it allows you to see, for the very first time, the name of the woman who gave you life. I carried around a feeling of being disposable all my life. Now I had some decisions to make and a question that I had to decide if I was strong enough to ask…What if no one associated with my birth certificate wants anything to do with me?
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"I'm adopted" ~ Two powerful words that wrote my story

"I'm adopted" ~ Two powerful words that wrote my story
Three weeks ago, the story I told myself for 48 years was torn in two like a page from a novel and it left me spiraling.
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My Adoption Journey: From Chains to Freedom

My Adoption Journey: From Chains to Freedom
What do you do when the story you told yourself turns out to be a lie?  
This is the question I am asking myself as I wade through the river of emotions that finding my birth mother and learning the truth has brought.  This is a story of breaking chains and finding freedom. 
This is an Adoption story
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