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You Don't Look Adopted

Auteur(s): Anne Heffron
Narrateur(s): Anne Heffron
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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.

©2018 Anne Heffron (P)2019 Anne Heffron Relations Éducation des enfants Adoption
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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.

breathtaking, real, I did not want it to end

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As an adoptee, I saw myself in her story. I just wish more adoptees were able to tell their story like Anne does.

Brutal and brilliant

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Recommended to me by another adoptee, I binged it in one day. Anne's honest retrospective about the effects on a person's physche when they are adopted into a family.. the insecurities it creates, even though the adopted family is loving and caring. There is always something a little off, something missing.
Even though at times it seems like she is blaming too much on being adopted...we don't all have stomach trouble, and a poor sense of direction. :)
This book helps the adoptee feel like we are not alone. This book is the hug we have been looking for.

Brutally honest story about being adopted

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