1. Reflections on Birth Parents
To Search or Not to Search
Living with a Very Open Adoption
Two Daughters, Two Destinies
2. Encounters with the Unexpected
Baby on Board-but Not Everyone Else
Color Her Becky: Grappling with Race
The Fallout from a Less-Than-Perfect Beginning
The Day That Hallmark Forgot
Standing Out and Standing Up in the Crowd
Keeping It All in the Family
4. Personal Transformations
Reluctant No More (Not That I Ever Was)
And Then Everything Changed