
TWICE THE ADOPTION MEMOIR: An Adoptee Twin Doubles Down on Her Adoption Story
Adoption Book Review: An Adoption Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood” by Julie Ryan McGue,, Available Feb. 4, 2025 | Memoir / Nonfiction

Adoption Book Review: An Adoption Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood” by Julie Ryan McGue,, Available Feb. 4, 2025 | Memoir / Nonfiction

My adoptive father and my birth father, met for the first and only time in Galveston, Texas, at a west-end marina, sometime between 1953 and 1961, a decade or so before I was born.

From the moment we met, I knew you were not just my birth father's wife, but that you'd somehow always been a mother I'd been missing.

“Please don’t be sad Mommy, but I figure I should live with Dora. She is not old like you, she has freckles like me, and she can give me a brother. See, I will be right there!” I s…


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