Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Stunning, stunning article

[Birth Mother,] First Mother Forum: Conceived in rape, but joined by a daughter's love...: Jane Katherine (Kathy) Stockton was born in 1960, blind, severely retarded, and physically disabled because her mother, Linda, contract...


As an adopted daughter -as a woman whose mother that raised her is now passed away - as a woman estranged from her own daughter, and feeling very distant (and not just geographically) from her grandsons - as a woman who is a rape survivor - as a mother who was frequently told in various forms that I wasn't a real mother, that I wasn't allowed to feel like a mother - finding this woman's website and reading this particular story has resonated so deeply within me, that I cannot even cry.

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