6 [S1 E6] Liz Prato
/An interview with Liz Prato, author of Baby's on Fire. Liz shares her search and secondary rejection story with us. She received a letter from an attorney from her biological father. Liz also shares her beautiful reunion with her biological half-sister and the heartbreak of losing her entire adoptive family by age 44.
Show Notes
Topics We Discussed
1963, baby scoop, Catholic charities, closed adoption
Premature, in an orphanage for the first few weeks
Craving touch (now a massage therapist), perhaps because of all the time she spent alone as an infant
Birthmother was age 23
“The Girls Who Went Away” - Ann Fessler
Grew up with an adoptive brother
Loss of entire adoptive family by age 44.
Searching for birthmother during 30s, using the confidential intermediary service
Secondary rejection by both birthmother and birthfather
Finding out she has half-bio siblings (on both sides)
Finding out her adoptive father had also relinquished a child
Colorado adoption records & activism to open records
Connecting with bio-sister and stages of reunion
Reconnecting with birthfather, and receiving a letter from his attorney
Finding healing in connecting with other adoptees
Recommended Resources
Facebook Group "How Does It Feel To Be Adopted" administrated by Pamela A. Karanova (blog is Adoptee in Recovery)
Found: A Memoir by Jennifer Lauck
Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib by Jaiya John
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