Finding Me In a Paper Bag: Searching For Both Sides Now

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974059404 ISBN 13: 9780974059402

Publisher: Gateway Press, 2003

Left as an infant in a brown paper bag on a farmer's porch and later, having to surrender her only daughter after being raped, the many layers of this powerful and inspiring story addresses: baby abandonment laws, rape, the results of an unsuccessful search and the great mystery that drives us to discover our origins.

The reader will experience how it feel to never know a real birth date, nationality or genetic past. Foundlings and Safe Haven babies must live their lives alive, but unknown.

The only book published written by both a foundling/adoptee and birthparent who does a duel search for both her mother and daughter at the same time using whatever means possible; psychics, angels, and an intermediary. The results will surprise you.

About the Author:

With a degree in Human Services, Sally has been involved in the Mental Health community for over thirty-five years. Her last involvement was as a Patient Rights Advocate representing patients being help against their will. A member of AAC and Cub and a speaker on adoption, she has also been a community leader and former president of many organizations and publisher of a newsletter. As a wife, mother and grandmother, she now sells children's books online.

Review:

A dramatic duel-search for herself and her daughter is incredibly powerful. Must be read by all affected by adoption. -- Joe Soll, CSW and Author of Adoption Healing-A Path to Recovery

A heartbreaking and enlightening book. Search for daughter honest and compelling. Helps reader along with their own journey. -- Carol Schaefer, author of The Other Mother & Mary Queen of Scots

Gripping, difficult and enlightening book. Important lens on society. Most will be surprised by it. -- Adam Pertman-author of Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America