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Al Lucero Mascareñas
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FREE 2/26-2/29, ADRIFT, How Discovering I Was Switched at Birth Changed My Life at 50. “fascinating, funny, chilling” http://awe.sm/5g2R7
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ADRIFT: How Discovering I Was Switched at Birth Changed My Life at Fifty
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ADRIFT, How Discovering I Was Switched at Birth Changed My Life at Fifty (Biographies & Memoirs)
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In August 1952 a county hospital in a California farm town discharged two newborn boys with the wrong families. In April 2003 I was a middle school English teacher and recovering from the end of a twenty-two-year marriage. Doctors had just diagnosed me with diabetes, long-term sleep deprivation, severe apnea, and a brain tumor. That’s when I first heard that I had been switched at birth.
The discovery triggered an emotional meltdown, alcohol and substance abuse, a string of teaching jobs, several months in veterans' hospitals and programs, unemployment, and homelessness.
ADRIFT, How Discovering I Was Switched at Birth Changed My Life is a memoir about loss of identity, a record of coming back from psychological trauma, and a commentary on family, social change, and growing up in America.
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