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You Don't Look Adopted

By: Anne Heffron
Narrated by: Anne Heffron
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Can writing your story save your life?

I should have come with a manual. My parents thought they were getting one thing when they adopted me - a baby of their own - when what they got was a human being with a story of her own.

As a child, I traded safety for silence.

As an adult, I had no idea who I was, why I quit nearly everything I started, why I struggled with things that came more easily to my friends (jobs, relationships, finances, self-esteem), why I seemed hell-bent on throwing myself away.

It got to the point where I didn’t care if telling my story was going to kill me: I was going to find a way to tell it, because living a life that felt like a lie was unbearable.

In order to write this book, I moved away from everything I knew, maxed out my credit cards, borrowed from friends and family, had lots of sex with strangers. Nearly penniless, I was living like a millionaire in the apartment of a fabulously famous writer. I was finally listening to my own voice. I ate cheesecake for dinner and fell in love with the East Village. I broke almost every rule I ran into because I was afraid this kind of freedom couldn’t go on forever. As I wrote, I lived every day as if it were my last.

I was in for such a surprise.

©2018 Anne Heffron (P)2019 Anne Heffron
Biographies & Memoirs Parenting & Families Relationships Adoption

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Been waiting for something like this

My whole life I told myself and others I had no issue being adopted until a year ago (36 years old) and since then I have slowly allowed myself to see the truth. Your book has confirmed this. I don’t feel alone. Thankyou

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Amazingly written and honest book

Thank you Anne for sharing your story. As a fellow adult adoptee, I came across your book whilst on my journey of adoption trying to figure myself out and understand how adoption has impacted my life and will likely to always impact my life. Such a powerful, honest and thought provoking book, I recommend this to anybody, especially us adoptees, Thankyou 💖

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