Simone Biles’s Birthmother

About Simone Biles’s birthmother Here’s the link to a newspaper article about Simone Biles’s birthmother. I read it twice. And I also read another interview with her in the Huffington…
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What to Say to a Birthmother

Do you know a birthmother? There are millions of us birthmothers. For every adoptee, there is one of us. We’re your sisters, your friends, your aunts, your cousins, your teammates,…
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Family Resemblances

Mother/daughter resemblance A substitute teacher, the mother of my regular teacher, taught this morning’s t’ai chi chih class. It was eerily wonderful to see the same tilt of the head,…
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This Mom’s Mother’s Day

  If you’re a birthmother, Mother’s Day is different. Really different. Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy’s Life, has this to say about his mother:“In her life she didn’t get…
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