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No glossy brochures here. What you’ll find instead are stories from the road — the hand-drawn maps, the detours nobody warned us about, and the landmarks you only recognize if you’ve lived them.

Think of this as the motel’s Tourist Info rack, minus the coupons for wax museums and chain buffets. Instead, you’ll find essays, reflections, and maybe a little gallows humor — all part of navigating life as one of the biologically bewildered.

Take what you need, leave what doesn’t fit, and check back often. The stack’s always changing.

Some of the first stops you’ll see here come from reflections written over two years, marking our 25th reunion anniversary. We wrote in dialogue — Point A, then Point B — trading perspectives on the same themes. Think of them as postcards back and forth, saved here for fellow travelers who might recognize the landscape.

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Defined By Adoption, Not By Choice

A medical scare brings old fears to the surface. Adoption has shaped every corner of our lives, but together we find the strength to speak out and create awareness of...

Defined By Adoption, Not By Choice

A medical scare brings old fears to the surface. Adoption has shaped every corner of our lives, but together we find the strength to speak out and create awareness of...

How Did I Not Know

What’s your favorite cake? Favorite song? Even something as small as how you like your eggs? Adoption often robs us of these shared childhood details, leaving gaps only reunion can...

How Did I Not Know

What’s your favorite cake? Favorite song? Even something as small as how you like your eggs? Adoption often robs us of these shared childhood details, leaving gaps only reunion can...

You Don’t Look Adopted

A friendship that felt like an adoptee connection left an unexpected ache. One comment — “You don’t look adopted” — revealed the hidden weight of stereotypes and silences adoptees carry....

You Don’t Look Adopted

A friendship that felt like an adoptee connection left an unexpected ache. One comment — “You don’t look adopted” — revealed the hidden weight of stereotypes and silences adoptees carry....

Twenty-Five Years of Roots and Branches

Twenty-five years of reunion has grown into deep roots and strong branches. One voice celebrates love’s endurance, while the other reckons with DNA, identity, and what adoption both gives and...

Twenty-Five Years of Roots and Branches

Twenty-five years of reunion has grown into deep roots and strong branches. One voice celebrates love’s endurance, while the other reckons with DNA, identity, and what adoption both gives and...

A Classic Threat

In adoption reunion, even shocking threats and teenage love confessions become classic stories. One birth mother recalls a kitchen chair threat, while her child remembers declaring, “I don’t care if...

A Classic Threat

In adoption reunion, even shocking threats and teenage love confessions become classic stories. One birth mother recalls a kitchen chair threat, while her child remembers declaring, “I don’t care if...

Suitcases of Fear

After 25 years in reunion, Point A and Point B open up about their deepest fears—losing each other again and the courage it takes to let love all the way...

Suitcases of Fear

After 25 years in reunion, Point A and Point B open up about their deepest fears—losing each other again and the courage it takes to let love all the way...