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STORKED!

By K. C. Sanford

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Author K. C. Sanford digs deep into the adoption system in STORKED!, a well-researched, expertly written, and compelling memoir and a powerful and poignant journey of self-discovery.
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Family is more than blood. It is the people who love you, make time for you, and choose to include you in their lives. Still, the whisper of DNA cannot be ignored. It’s a whisper adopted children hear most acutely. Who are my birth parents? What have I inherited from them? Who am I? Author K.C. Sanford asks these questions and gets some surprising answers in STORKED! (Adoption Secrecy and the Search for Identity). Sanford’s dogged pursuit of her birth parents is a story of discovery and inevitable heartbreak. The author struggles against Florida’s “closed adoption system,” which seals all adoption records, even to adoptees who want to connect with birth parents decades later. Don’t adoptees deserve to know their entire history? Sanford’s crusade against Florida’s closed adoption system is right and just. The rise of ancestral DNA testing — Ancestry and 23andMe — was the break Sanford needed to unlock her family secrets. She slowly connects with distant cousins, a half-sister, and finally, her birth parents.

STORKED! is the story of a complex emotional journey that will inspire anyone who has ever questioned their place in the world. At the heart of any adoption story is a tale of loss, where hard choices were made. Adoptions are hope born of sorrow. Committing to love and care for a child that’s not your own is the most magnanimous of human deeds. Sanford’s origin story includes shocking twists and turns unique to her. But she makes peace with this newfound knowledge and puts it in proper perspective. Her creation is only one early chapter in her story, not a defining moment. Reuniting with her birth parents is another mixed bag of emotions. Sanford develops a warm, genuine, and rewarding relationship with her birth father. But her birth mother is still not equipped to handle the responsibilities of parenthood, even as an adult. There’s a double-down of sorrow when Sanford is again abandoned by her birth mother. Sometimes discovery means turning over a lot of stones to find the ugly underneath.

Author K. C. Sanford digs deep into the adoption system in STORKED!, a well-researched, expertly written, and compelling memoir and a powerful and poignant journey of self-discovery.

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STORKED!

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K. C. Sanford’s STORKED! (Adoption Secrecy and the Search for Identity) narrates the emotional true life story of a child in a “closed” adoption situation, along with the feelings that come with such secrecy. This memoir reads like a mystery, as it invites the reader to follow the author’s quest to find her biological parents, navigating the laws which hinder her in doing so.