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Adoption - Ideology and Reality "Adoption is a moment, being adopted a lifelong process" I'm interested on this issue because I'm an adopted child. I'm born 1961 in Frankfurt/Germany as a child of a German mother and an American father, a former soldier. In the age of eight months I came in an orphanage and in the age of 3 years to my loving foster parent’s. They adopted me when I was 10 years old.
I never spoke about my feelings as an adopted child, but I always wanted to find my roots and after a very bad sickness 2003 (cancer and legally blindness) and more then 40 years I felt the time was there to act.
On the way home .... the biggest milestone in my life. The desire to find my real family and my roots was stronger than ever. After six month of intensive search I found my mother in Germany and less then two years later I met my father’s family in the United States. When I saw the first pictures of my real parents I was so overwhelmed, happy and thankful. First time in my life I had knowledge about how my real parents looked like. I held in my hands a piece of my past. It was a piece of me. "My only connection to who I really was."
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