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Adopted from Moldova

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Jacky shares about growing up with fragmented memories of their birth country Moldova and adjustments to fit in with life and family in the USA.

Agent Orange Awareness Month

On By lynellelongIn Adoptees Educate, Adoption and Disability, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Family Preservation, Gratitude in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Impacts to Biological Families, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Special Medical Conditions, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, VietnamLeave a comment

Lynelle shares thoughts of October as Agent Orange Awareness Month which triggers a deeper look into how she came to be sent abroad as a Vietnamese adoptee.