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Originally Posted By mytI am seeking quality poems, short stories and essays about the adoption experience from all perspectives for therapeutic use, insight, and solidarity. This is a part of my senior thesis project to be completed early summer 2002. The anthology will be bound and may be professionally published. More information and guidelines at:
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Originally Posted By Barb BurkeYour welcome to visit our site which is a great resource for other families interested in adoption.I also am moderator of a military adoption support group at yahoo groups. If anyone is interested in joining, they may click on the link on our homepage or go to the yahoo group site directly.
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My name is Laura F. Williams Crawford. I had a daughter that was born at the NNMC Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Her name was April Nicole Williams when I gave birth to her. I think her name has been changed but I am not for sure. She was born on April 26, 1982. She was adopted by a Marine Corpe couple in I do believe it was 1983 or 1984. I was forced into giving up all my rights to her somewhere between May and July 1983. Everyone told me that I was not ready or fit enough to raise a child at the time because I was to torn apart from the state of Virginia taking her away from me. I was so messed up that everyone believed that I could not take care of her. I was told after I signed the papers that I was not going to get her back anyway. My daughter and I went through a year of pure hell to find out that we were not even going to be together in the first place. It was all for show to these people just to save face for the state. I was so totally torn up from this that I hid myself away in the woods at my grandfather's for almost two years before I even considered having anything to do with the human race again. I just wanted to be alone away from people because I did not trust them anymore. I just could not take my world being torn apart like that again. I am so sorry that this is so long that I will go now and stop bothering you people anymore. Thank you for letting me say my piece and I hope if my daughter ever gets to read this that she will know that I never wanted to let her go but I could not fight a crooked system as what is in Virginia. I love my daughter with all my heart and soul and I would never do anything to hurt her ever. She was everything in my heart and these people ripped that right out of me. I hope she knows that I will always love her no matter how she feels about me.