Jennifer Gilmore, Author of "The Mothers," on Adoption

"When will the day come when someone stops me on the street with my child and asks his age or his name, and I won’t feel I need to tell the part of my son’s birth story that is, in part, his adoption. When he can hear me? When the drama of his adoption fades? When I start to feel more confident about the word, mother?" read more
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