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The Fight Of My Life Inspired by Pamela Karanova

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  THE FIGHT OF MY LIFE  by Pamela Karanova August 13, 1974 the fight began, the minute I was born my birth-mother ran. Conceived out of a drunken one-night stand with a married man, did my tiny body ever feel her warm soft hands? A sacred bond would be broken too soon, I can imagine the sorrow in the delivery room. I spent the next 4 days in the nursery all alone, but I’ve always wanted to know…   Did she name me? Did she hold me? Did she love me? Did she think about me? Who was she?  Just like that, at the...

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Our Adoptee Merch and Adoptees Connect Collaboration

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  When Adoptee Merch was created and launched around New Year’s 2018 one of our missions was to be able to focus on putting adoptee voices first. As a give back to the adoptee community, we planned on gifting DNA kits to adoptees who might not be able to afford them otherwise. This is known as our DNA KIT COMMIT Program. We also wanted to provide a platform where adoptees could share their visions for adoptee merchandise, while in return we shared their stories and bring these visions to life. You can read a little more about this process here....

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Finding My Truth Has Made Me Whole by Mary N.

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  Finding my truth has made me whole. By Mary N.  To read the beginnings of my story featured on Adoptee Merch click here.  I am fascinated with the DNA part of it, the genealogy. The truth is, the results of the end of a very long search for my living family was unbelievably painful and disappointing. I guess what I got out of it is almost a sense of being spared the real insane and chaotic life my siblings lived. I feel like the abandonment I felt, which I feel is the reason for my addictions are minuscule next...

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I'm Adopted - Ask Me How It Feels

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This graphic design was inspired from a vision to promote Adoptees to turn the tides on non-adoptees speaking for us. It’s a way to spark an open dialog with those OFFLINE in our real lives and communities to share how it feels to be adopted. It’s another way to speak up and share our stories because we matter and our stories matter. It’s a way to share our truth as we see it by sparking conversations with others. This gives us a gateway to share our truth but also opens a window of a possible teaching opportunity for anyone who’s not adopted who might have the willingness to learn from our very valuable lived experiences.

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Our DNA Kit Commit Winner is Debbie Schaaf of Mascoutah, IL.

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  ​ My name is Debbie Kay Schaaf and I submitted a request for Adoptee Merch's DNA Kit Commit Program. I am a 62 year old adoptee. I have always known that I was adopted since the day it happened in December of 1963 when I was 7 years old. I truly did not really understand what was happening at the time. Just to say I believe what I was told which turned out to be mostly lies. ​The reason that I have not purchased a DNA testing kit is because I don’t have the money to get one myself. ​I want answers about...

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