Sad Stories Rule The Day.

The Girl's Who Went Away is an eye opening read.

It's going into my 'must read' multiple times.

The biggest awaking with this book is to have more compassion for the Birth Mother's. I thought I had compassion but hearing the stories of so many women has really made me want to reach out hold everyone of them. I want to help them heal. Being an Adoptee is probably one of the better people that can help them.
I feel like I can fill in the loss that they have had to incur. It's horrible what they have been put through. The secrets that they feel they have to keep...the shame that is unnecessary...the guilt is unbelievable. They need someone to stand up and let them know that it was not their fault for any of it. They were not properly counseled before, during or after.

Ann Fessler, the author of this book, grew up the adopted daughter of an adopted daughter. Her mother was never told she’d been adopted—she accidentally discovered it. Like me, Ann was told she was adopted when she was young.
Also like me, she never thought about how her birth mother must have felt. Until one day in 1989 when she had a conversation with a woman she met at an art exhibit. After discovering that Ann was adopted but had never tried to find her birth mother, the woman, who was herself a birth mother, said, “‘You should find her. She probably worries every day about what happened to you and whether you’ve had a good life.’ I [Ann] could see in her eyes that she was speaking from her own experience, and the thought that my mother might feel the same sense of loss was shocking to me. I felt guilty and empathetic and naïve all at once. Why have I never considered this possibility? How could I not know? How could everyone not know? I continued to listen, realizing that I had never heard the story of adoption from the perspective of a mother who had surrendered her child. It seemed incredible to me that after forty years of life as an adoptee I was hearing the other side of the story for the first time.”

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