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You Don't Look Adopted
- Narrateur(s): Anne Heffron
- Durée: 5 h et 55 min
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Description
Can writing your story save your life?
I should have come with a manual. My parents thought they were getting one thing when they adopted me - a baby of their own - when what they got was a human being with a story of her own.
As a child, I traded safety for silence.
As an adult, I had no idea who I was, why I quit nearly everything I started, why I struggled with things that came more easily to my friends (jobs, relationships, finances, self-esteem), why I seemed hell-bent on throwing myself away.
It got to the point where I didn’t care if telling my story was going to kill me: I was going to find a way to tell it, because living a life that felt like a lie was unbearable.
In order to write this book, I moved away from everything I knew, maxed out my credit cards, borrowed from friends and family, had lots of sex with strangers. Nearly penniless, I was living like a millionaire in the apartment of a fabulously famous writer. I was finally listening to my own voice. I ate cheesecake for dinner and fell in love with the East Village. I broke almost every rule I ran into because I was afraid this kind of freedom couldn’t go on forever. As I wrote, I lived every day as if it were my last.
I was in for such a surprise.
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- Alexandra
- 2021-02-10
breathtaking, real, I did not want it to end
Anne really opened her whole heart in this book! I did not want it to end. I found this book through a podcast called adoptees on. I completely binged this book in one day and a morning. I could not stop listening, it filled my heart and gave words to feelings I could not articulate for 29 years. As an adoptee this book really comforted me. All of the feelings shared felt so similar to me. I have never wanted to meet an author of a book so badly! her realness was everything I needed right now!
I love this book and I love Anne.
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