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An attachment-affected adult adoptee offers a look back at a painful past and forward to a hopeful future... a story shared to encourage community dialog as a means of greater understanding.

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Reading this was a bit eerie. I am an adoptee, I was adopted out early and never knew my birth parents. Through all my life I have always said that the only family that mattered was my adopted family, since they raised me. Only recently have I begun to look into adoption sites and I have been amazed at how many of my own personal issues are similar to other adoptees. I read this article and the author's life has been very similar to my own. I am 36 years old, I've never been able to cultivate a true honest relationship. I have used lies so often in my life and am constantly seeking acceptance. The real irony struck me towards the end. I decided to return to school last fall to study sociology. I share the same desire that the author has to help others. This is also a part of my own personal therapy. I read about the author's attempts to live and hope that my attempts can find the same contentedness.