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Notes From a Motherless Daughter

May 9, 2010 3 Comments

I was adopted. I didn’t find this out until we were in the funeral car on the way to my mother’s funeral. I was 21 years old and my world had just been shattered. One of my sisters-in-law turned to me in the car and asked, “So, Joni Marie, when did you find out you […]

Mother, May I?

May 11, 2003 2 Comments

My mother has been on my mind a lot lately. I lost her to congestive heart failure in 1980 when she was hours shy of her 75th birthday. I was 21. (I’m adopted, which explains the age difference.) I was lucky to be adopted by this feisty Irish woman. While alive, she regaled me with […]