Stillborn: An Adoptee’s Sixty Year Search for Life

Stillborn is a memoir about my sixty-year search for the unmarried teenager who abandoned me at birth. After mistreatment in my first foster home, I was adopted by my second foster parents.  Curiosity about my adoption grew as did I.

After marriage and fatherhood, the first search for my parents is started.  It is unsuccessful, and my interest fades away.  Twenty years later, I search again using the growing Internet. Again, it is unsuccessful.

When I develop a serious health issue, a genealogist is hired.  In spite of false names used on my birth certificate, both birth-parents are found after a prolonged search. Only my mother knew I existed, having told her ex-lover I had been stillborn.  The next four years bond our divergent families closer together.

Both parents died with me at their side, and I learned to accept the emotions I had repressed all these years.

I now have a four year old grandson and an three year old granddaughter.

My parents and birth-parents are truly smiling down on us.

STILLBORN in paperback is available for purchase here.  STILLBORN for Kindle is found here.