Featured Sister’s Letters

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Drawing the Line

  Some people have been wondering what I mean by "unspoken set of rules." In my last column, I mentioned that having a set of rules for yourself...

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I’m Childless At 42…

I'm childless at 42 and haunted by the baby I aborted at 18 Setting out from my home in sleepy Devon, I catch the bus into the nearest big town,...

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My Other Mother

Beautiful poem "My Other Mother" written by Diane about her lifelong journey of adoption and the path to her Other Mother.

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Skitching?

  My friend was inconsolable. All she kept saying was, "That boy's mother, that boy's mother." I couldn't imagine how his mother would take the...

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Days With Baby

  A couple months ago, when I was pregnant and very hungry, I was rooting through my mother’s cookbooks looking for something good to make. I...

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