Awareness

With the month of November comes National Adoption Awareness Month and Remembrance Day.
I am glad I chose to send for my Grandparents Marriage Certificate. I wish I could learn more so I can pass the history on to my Grandchildren. They would be so grateful for what their Grandfather did in his past. They would love to show the respect that he deserves, and share with their friends and school. They would finally be able to produce a real family tree that explains why they are the way they are. It's not just nurture, nature does play a huge role in who you are as much as my first family may disagree. I would love to be able to belong to the history of this great man that I have no knowledge of. I crave the belonging that family has, instead I have to investigate like a common criminal by creeping and snooping out everywhere possible for the information that some people say I don't deserve and I have no right to. Adoption doesn't give a better life for the adoptee, it takes away the Adoptees story. It makes the adoptee have to pretend and act like they belong to strangers. Stockholm syndrome comes to mind.