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Choosing adoption as the only alternate happy ending to abortion is a fallacy, because giving up a child is a trauma that happens not only to you but to your child as well.
questions about whether I’m ready for the answers I’ve sought for so many years.
The silent ones who’d tried and tried and tried and then quietly gave up.
“You’ve always had a mother’s heart,”
Waiting to launch my fantasy into reality.
Only twenty-five and alone in the world.
“Did you ever consider that what happened to me was a trauma? That I’ve spent my entire life carrying that around inside of me?”
From the moment I was born, the things that happened to me were out of my control. The one thing I had was control over whether I wanted to know you or not.
