Becoming Jackie

Email from my half sister yesterday... reaching out if I was willing to get to know them 14 years ago I issued invitations to my life to their mother whose carefully crafted facade can't hold back what was ultimately inevitable

Don't kid yourself Being adopted starts with why Searching for birth family starts with why The whys are endless little seeds planted in the adopted child watered early and often growing into complicated thickets and tangled branches of family and "family" It is my hope to explore some of the whys to examine the dance of nature and nurture to provide context for those who have none