Blood relatives Quote by Sherrie Eldridge

““I have this deep need to bond with real blood relatives, but I feel like I'm not really a part of either of my families.””

Sherrie Eldridge

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“Then one detail caught my attention. "Time (of birth), 5:57 A.M." Wow! I really was born! I wasn't an alien who was dropped down…

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“Listen to your hearts, parents! You are the expert when it comes to knowing your child. I love the Scripture that says we are…

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“The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we…

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“Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been…

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“You realize you've never walked in another person's shoes. Never have. Never will. The same is true in adoption. There are three sets of…

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“It is a celebration of the fact that we were adopted for a purpose and that adoption is an experience that has the potential…

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“...they look at adoption through rose-colored glasses, trying to make it a win/win situation for unplanned pregnancies and infertility, never giving a thought about…

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“I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what…

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“If we were created from the very fiber of our birth parents' physical and emotional beings, don't you think our need to think about…

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“Because our birth mothers made a choice for us that dramatically changed the course of our lives and over which we had no control,…

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“Adoptive parents often say about adoption day: "It was the happiest day of our lives!" While most of us are happy to be adopted,…

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“...the advantage of having an unexpected opportunity to successfully grieve our early-life losses; to enjoy healthy relationships; to develop an unshakable sense of self-esteem;…

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“You said these guys are your cousins? Is that, like, for real? It's, like, not a turn of phrase?" "What on earth do you…

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“I think that people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They…

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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which…

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“Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent…

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“You know, nothing is stronger than blood bonds. What else is the reason for the success of life insurance policies? Why bother with what…

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You should be careful, tossing descriptors like that around in a situation like this. My ‘problem’ isn’t little. Unless you’re drawing some pretty wild…

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Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone…

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“In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: "I think that book publishing is about to…

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“But Green returns to the most important way that Christianity spread — through the extended household (oikos) evangelism done informally by Christians. A person’s…

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