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There is an old song called Smile Though Your Heart is Breaking. People who suffer from depression often hide their feelings with a smile and that was what I did. I just smiled at everyone and they thought I was okay. I wasn’t. My heart was broken, because I had to give up a baby for adoption in 1966. In those days if you entered a maternity hospital as an unmarried woman, you were considered unfit to be a mother. The…..
I have always written – I have been a scribbler since I was eight years old. At the age of eight I read the story of Bambi. I cried when Bambi’s mother was shot by a hunter. I rewrote the story of Bambi and gave it a happy ending. I told Little-friend-Susan I had written a book. “What is it called?” asked Susan. “Bambi,” I reply. I was too young to have heard of plagiarism. My uncle sent us a…..
When my husband died in June, 2012, I rang the daughter I had to relinquish in 1966, to tell her that her birth father had passed. Straight away she started saying, “Why did you adopt me out? Why did you have two more children and keep them?” I had told her my story many times in the twenty years we had been reunited, but I had not told her every detail. It was embarrassing to say ‘Your father was a…..
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