I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls - E-book - ePub

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 Mary Ellen Gambutti - I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls.
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Travel in this captivating journey of self-discovery and triumph over adversity through a collage of vignettes, poetry, lyrical prose, letters, fragments, and photos in this poignant story of a post-WWII South Carolina infant girl's relinquishment and her adoption by an Air Force couple. Her 1950s childhood is marked by maternal severance and military family separations. She comes of age amid the heightened anxiety of the turbulent 1960s.
The complexity of primal trauma, guilt, grief, and the effects of her father's intelligence officer's role; its culture of confidentiality, secrecy, and discipline, as well as his religious piety, lead her to a desire to learn her origins. With the help of adoptee advocates, the barrier to her sealed birth records yields, and she embarks on a quest for her natural mother. Decades later, DNA testing leads her to a greater wealth of family, and she is closer to reconciling with the loss and privilege of her adopted life.
An inspirational must-read. (Bibliography and Resources).

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    15/02/2023
  • Editeur
    Ibis and Hibiscus Press
  • ISBN
    978-1-941066-59-1
  • EAN
    9781941066591
  • Format
    ePub
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Protection num.
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Biographie de Mary Ellen Gambutti

My earliest memories were formed from words and music. My first five months are mostly unaccounted for, but the couple who would adopt me sang and smiled, talked, and read to me. I studied Webster's Dictionary at bedtime from age eight and wrote personal poems. Reading, vocabulary, grammar, and spelling sustained my interest in school when Air Force transfers disrupted my elementary education. I let go of word-stringing: jottings, notes, lists, letters, essays, and poetry when at age fifty-eight I was stricken with a brain hemorrhage.
While recovering at home, after months of hospital rehab, I was eager to return to writing. I summed up my tenure as president of our 55+ community garden club, where I guided the pruning and planting, imparting my horticulture training. Retiring my desktop newsletter, "Gardener's Quarterly", I began to take online writing courses to suss the "why" and "how" of my life, beginning with the story of my stroke. I absorbed the memoirs of Natalie Goldberg, Annie Dillard, Brenda Miller, and many others, captivated by the words and meaning that poured from their souls.
I practiced on my new laptop, typing with my formerly unfavored left hand, as I still do, taking stock of what has happened to me, as well as what I have made happen. Thus, writing memoirs is therapeutic, and life-affirming. I hope my words resonate with you.

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