The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
From Jennifer Gilmore
My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.
I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.
I really don't feel that writing is therapy.
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.
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