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Category: Tessa

Reunion in an Open Adoption, Part 2: Telling Tessa

Recap of Part 1: After a long email courtship, Roger and I met Tessa’s birth father for the first time and decided to take the

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Reunion with Birth Father in an Open Adoption

It sounds like an oxymoron. After all, one reason we chose open adoption was to avoid the difficulties in reunion. We’ve always had an open

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Why I keep my blog password a secret from my daughter

A few weeks ago, I put up a post that Reed helped with. Today is Tessa’s turn. She and I have an ongoing disagreement about

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