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Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston
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Updates & Connecting With me These Days
Welcome to a space on the web that I have considered to be home for more than one third of my life thus far. I have reshaped this space and its purpose around the adoptee voice repeatedly for the past thirteen years. My readers probably realized something long before I was able to. That is, the capacity to produce long-form content, like blog entries, is something that has not fit my ever-evol Read more of this blog post »
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Dear Wonderful You, Letters to Adopted & Fostered Youth
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Adoption Reunion in the Social Media Age, An Anthology
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Lost Daughters: Writing Adoption From a Place of Empowerment and Peace
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Flip the Script: Adult Adoptee Anthology
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The Declassified Adoptee: Essays of an Adoption Activist
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Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology: Dismantling the Stereotype
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“The word, 'issues,' is perhaps a misnomer, a gross understatement, or a pale and withered description for very real psychological illnesses and emotional losses. Nevertheless, "post-adoption issues" is a catch-all phrase, and at least it avoid pathologizing adoptees.”
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“Having a blood family means suddenly revising a definition of family that I have, over many years, learned to accept. How can I hold both concepts in my mind or find room for both families in my heart?”
― Ghost of Sangju
― Ghost of Sangju
“...I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have.”
― Ghost of Sangju
― Ghost of Sangju
“You had nightmares every night for a long time and screamed in Korean words, but we didn't know what they meant. I asked someone who knew Korean, and he said it was um-ma um-ma, the word for mom.”
― Ghost of Sangju
― Ghost of Sangju
“I don't understand this--when people love you so much they are willing to get rid of you. I think if I loved someone that much I'd want to stay with them. It doesn't make sense that love would make a mother leave, and I wonder when this mother will love me that much too. I get the idea that love might be something to both desire and fear, and maybe if we don't love each other too much I won't have to go away again. I wonder why love works for everyone else, but it doesn't work for me.”
― Ghost of Sangju
― Ghost of Sangju
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