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- Incredible Discoveries Await Curious Adoptees
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Big Dreamers
“To make our dreams come true, we must pursue them. Big dreamers are visionaries who seek a purpose in life. Dreams identify desires, desires produce determination, and determination leads to our destiny. Those who believe in the beauty of their … Continue reading
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Striving for a “Purpose-Driven” Life
“Life is about creating yourself. Adoption shouldn’t result in a lifetime of finding yourself. Adoptees should strive to ‘create’ themselves to live a purpose-driven life. Don’t let the past hold you back. Everyone can choose their friends, vocations, and education.” … Continue reading
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Creating a Positive Self-Image
“Self-image is the primary cause of success and failure in life. Build a winner’s self-image to live a positive life. Be kind and encouraging to yourself. Spend time with supportive people. Encourage yourself. Remind yourself what you have learned. Everything … Continue reading
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Life is a Tightrope for Adoptees
“Life for adoptees is unpredictable, an endless lesson in humility, a journey across the globe without assurance. Life has risks. Sometimes, being adopted feels like walking a tightrope while relentlessly working against steady currents, high winds, fire, thunder, and lightning. … Continue reading
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Life Lessons
“Getting beyond childhood is like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, transforming into something different and beautiful. The caterpillar must abandon its old life and accept its new identity before emerging with its colorful wings to take on the world.” –Judith Land … Continue reading
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What is the Adoption Paradox?
“Why don’t adopted kids do as well in school as one would expect from their parents’ higher education level and wealth? Despite the advantages provided by many adoptive parents, their adopted children tend to struggle emotionally and psychologically with more … Continue reading
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Are Adoptees More Telepathic?
“Nothing stresses an infant more than maternal separation. Perhaps, when two souls are intertwined, the mother’s loss activates intuitive alarms in the child’s brain that increase the tactile senses, heighten the senses of optics and smell, and trigger a telepathic … Continue reading
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Empathy for Adoptees
“Empathy is the ability to understand others’ depth of emotion, pain, suffering, and state of mind. The more empathy we exhibit, the more likely we will have positive mental health, higher job performance, leadership skills, positive relationships with others, and … Continue reading
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Surprise Inheritance for an Adoptee
“The fundamental nature of adoptees is exploration because you don’t know what’s out there. Every adoption story is a book that keeps you asking questions and turning the pages to find the answers. Life is an adventure and an unsolved … Continue reading
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Learning You were Adopted is an Epiphany
“Adoption awareness is a moment of sudden realization and insight—an epiphany. Adults who discover that they were adopted may experience a wide range of emotions, including betrayal, abandonment, despair, and an inability to trust those who kept the secret from … Continue reading
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Adoption Detective: Memoir of an Adopted Child 
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