I Must Have Wandered - Gambutti, Mary Ellen
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Travel across the years in this inspiring and lyrical collage memoir. In post-WWII South Carolina, chance and choice connected a childless Air Force couple with an abandoned baby girl. Seventy years later, she has framed a deeply personal narrative of vignettes and poetic prose with old and new correspondence, reflections on maternal severance, the injustice of sealed birth records, and the ills of adoption secrecy. She has documented her military family transfers and separations from early childhood through the Cold War Era and the turbulent 1960s. The encultured discipline and secrecy of her…mehr

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Travel across the years in this inspiring and lyrical collage memoir. In post-WWII South Carolina, chance and choice connected a childless Air Force couple with an abandoned baby girl. Seventy years later, she has framed a deeply personal narrative of vignettes and poetic prose with old and new correspondence, reflections on maternal severance, the injustice of sealed birth records, and the ills of adoption secrecy. She has documented her military family transfers and separations from early childhood through the Cold War Era and the turbulent 1960s. The encultured discipline and secrecy of her father's Intelligence rank; his parental code of threat, punishment, and expected gratitude for the privilege of adoption, heightened the sensitive adoptee's vigilance and identity confusion. At forty, her need to know her true origins surfaced. With help from adoptee advocates, she launched the search for her natural mother. DNA testing set her on a parallel journey of self-discovery decades later, and she began to reconcile her adopted life, the meaning of heritage, and the wealth of family. This 2nd edition features a new cover, Epilogue, and About the Author, and an updated Notes, Books, Resources, and expanded photo Gallery in the e-book, with a link to the Gallery in the paperback
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My earliest memories were formed from words and music. My first five months are mostly unaccounted for, but the couple who would adopt me sang and smiled, talked, and read to me. I studied Webster's Dictionary at bedtime from age eight and wrote personal poems. Reading, vocabulary, grammar, and spelling sustained my interest in school when Air Force transfers disrupted my elementary education. I let go of word-stringing: jottings, notes, lists, letters, essays, and poetry when at age fifty-eight I was stricken with a brain hemorrhage. While recovering at home, after months of hospital rehab, began online writing courses to suss the "why" and "how" of my life, beginning with the story of my stroke. I absorbed the memoirs of Natalie Goldberg, Annie Dillard, Brenda Miller, and many others, captivated by the words and meaning that poured from their souls. I practiced on my new laptop, typing with my formerly unfavored left hand, as I still do, taking stock of what has happened to me, as well as what I have made happen. Thus, writing memoirs is therapeutic, and life-affirming. I hope my words resonate with you.