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  • I, too, have been struggling with this Regarding name usage - Have you ever googled your name? The amount of information out there is frightening. I've come across se...
  • Great post. Thank you, Laura. When I was young and poor, I often thought: what if someone came to me, a notary or a lawyer, and said that I was switched at birth and m...
  • I actually got into a fight on HuffPo, the other day, about this article.  As a young mom (my daughter was 5 months old at the time), we discovered that my husband was...
  • What an amazing story, Marina. Thanks for posting this. My biological mother was an alcoholic, who used her sex as a means to have men take care of her. She always fou...
  • Hi, Carrie!I love the back story for your book.  I think coming up with a title for it will be super exciting for you.  I'm trying to imagine what kind of title I woul...
  • For this exact reason I'm writing a fiction book--the only parts that are fiction are the names that have been changed. I may even publish under a pen-name. The story...
  • Deborah, great post. I've been sitting on my hands here... I just wrote another post on ParentDish about what it was like for my kids when they came home, and we faced...
  • Olinka I'm sorry about your high school years. We made it through to the other side. I didn't go to college until I was in my forties. I joined the army to avoid marrying someone like my biological dad. Two of my sisters married the men my dad set up them (drinking buddies).
  • You did a great job with the Ted talk except I wanted to know what was in the diaper bag.  I want to comment on the subject of the talk.   I have seen children under t...