“While food brings Korean culture closer to me, I feel part of and separate from it as an adoptee, a tension that’s evident in many small ways. For instance, I remember one of the first times I found myself in a small Korean restaurant filled with only Koreans. It was a new and strange experience to be part of the majority, to blend into a room where I looked like everyone else, where everyone was going about the normal activity of eating dinner.”
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My Adoption Journey: From reunions, to struggles, to gaining a new best friend
“The day I met my birthmother in person was completely surreal. We already established a connection from many emails we exchanged before picking a date and location to meet. I was so nervous I thought I would throw-up, which was completely out of character. I think my nerves kept me from bawling when we first saw each-other and hugged.”
A White Adoptee’s Search for Her Birth Culture
“So where do you go to explore your birth family’s culture when you’re white and have a closed adoption? Honestly, I don’t know. I assume that learning about your birth family’s culture is easier if you have an open adoption (at least for getting information—I know it’s certainly not always easier emotionally).”
Love’s Chosen
“To some they may look at my story and see someone who was destined for nothing more than the orphanage had to offer. I look at my story and see God. I see the heart of our Father. A heart that pursues His beloved. I see passion. I see love.”
Twice Adopted
“It’s not the new life that my adoptive parents gave me which changed my fate but the eternal life God has given me through Jesus that changed my life from bad karma to unbelievably good eternal karma as the beloved Son of God, the Creator of the universe.”