Isell Adoption, Reunion, and the Father Who Spent 55 Years Looking.

He left his name on my birth certificate. Signed up for adoption registries. Searched the internet with his sons. For 55 years, Isell never stopped looking. Then one day, an ocean apart, I called. #adopteestories open.substack.com/pub/lisamari...

From International Adoption to Reclaiming Citizenship

🥚Family Twist podcast released my conversation with them today! I haven't listened to it yet. Lol! If you do, let me know what you think! 💛

#BlackandAdopted #TransnationalAdoptee #AdopteeVoices #AdopteeStories

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This Adoptee Discovered a Trove of Documents in a Nun’s Basement. The Rare Vietnam War Records Rewrite the Story of Operation Babylift The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the complicated legacy of their evacuation

This Adoptee Discovered a Trove of Documents in a Nun’s Basement. The Rare Vietnam War Records Rewrite the Story of Operation Babylift: The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from… @SmithsonianMag #Adoption #VietnamWar #OperationBabylift #AdopteeStories #History

11 Years Written by Strangers: Introduction There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou Introduction Eleven years written by strangers is a personal account reflecting on my foster care records and reveali…

Head over to my blog to read 11 years written by strangers. Below is the link to the intro, and there are 2 other posts with more to come.

#adoptee #adopteesofbluesky #adopted #fostercare #adoptionistrauma #adopteestories ##forcedadoptions

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A poem about my great grandmother and my grandmother. Happy August friends! #lowercasepoetry #immigrantstories #adopteestories @portlandchinatownmuseum @soulabofanthropology

Memorial, celebration, grieving- purpose beyond the technique, and still… | A.D. Herzel, M.Ed Memorial, celebration, grieving- purpose beyond the technique, and still interwoven in the process. It is easy to get distracted by the how of art, but not the point. The why- mourning, connection, co...

My why- and how I survive and thrive. #asianamericanartist #immigrantart #mourning
#koreanadoptee #adopteestories
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Operation Babylift aimed to save children during Saigon's fall in 1975. Decades on, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the complex aftermath and legacy of this mass adoption. #OperationBabylift #VietnamWar #AdopteeStories

Uniquely adoptee experience: Your dad that you’ve never met in person is the only one you’ve spoken to that knows your mom (from 60 years ago) and tells you your mom is great and you’re going to love her when you meet her in person. 🤯(and he was right!)
#adoptee #adopteestories

Many adoptees didn’t need new parents because their parents are great. What those adoptees needed was for their parents to have support so they could’ve stayed with their parents. #adoptee #adopteestories

So, is there a crash course on how to prepare to meet your parents at 59 yo? Adoptee friends, help!
#adopteestories #adopteereunion

Special to gather with fellow adoptees at the @adopteelitfestival. Deeply honored to be featured on their Sizzle Reel, and to be the first reader. . #adopteelitfest2025 #adopteestories #adopteewriters #adopteevoices #adoption #adoptee #transracial #adopted #adopt
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I am an adult adopted person, in my 50s. I found my dad last year. He was in a box in a garage for decades. I decided that it’s time to give him a fresh start in a nice new wooden box that suits us. He’s mine now, lol. #adoption
#adoptees
#adopteestories
#whosyourdaddy
#secretsandlies
#adopteerights

This is the adoptee experience, left print is in the fog, and the one next to it is out of out of the fog. If you are an adoptee on here, even if we’ve never met, and would like one of these, let me know. I would like to give these all away. #adoptees #adopteevoices #adopteestories

A new post is up on www.myadoptedlife.com exploring some of the most noteworthy #adoptionbooks released by #authors in the #adoption community in #2024. #adopteesky #adoptionresources #books #memoir #adopteestories #author #reunion #adoptees #birthmothers #writingcommunity

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Mark Steel, comedian Mark Steel, comedian, shares the soundrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

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I met my biological dad this summer and he and my husband bonded instantly. Having these two men in my life is one of the greatest honors of my life ♥️ #adoption #adoptiontrauma #adopteestories

As A Young Black Girl, I Loved My Grandfather. Then I Found Out He'd Been A KKK Member. "Unless we teach the truths of our troubled history in our school systems, our garden can’t help but be stunted; if we rise to the challenge, imagine how lush it could be."

BuzzFeed just gave my essay a second life. It’s about unraveling the complexities of my family’s unexpected history. Though the headline isn't mine - I stand by the essay! #adopteestories #essays #writingcommunity #writers
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I am excited to share that my #onsub #manuscript for my #memoir about my #blackmarket #adoption is among 10 finalists selected for the #BakwinAward for Full-Length Prose by Blair Publishing. Congrats to the nine others also selected. The final 10, mine #bakwin #bakwinaward #longlist #adopteestories