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¿¿I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls - A Quest for the Recovery of Heritage is the 2nd edition of this hybrid memoir of vignettes, letters, fragments, and photos in which Mary Ellen tells stories of her relinquishment at birth in post-WWII South Carolina and her closed adoption a year later by an Air Force couple. We travel with the author In her lyrical prose from her 1950s childhood, family transience, and separation...

Permanent Home, a memoir-in-essays, begins with glimpses of the author's adoptive life as an Air Force daughter in the 1950s and 1960s. Vignettes of loss and privilege advance through her determination to find her biological heritage. A hemorrhagic stroke in middle age requires lengthy rehabilitation and further reveals her need to claim identity.

Fortitude's Footing is the powerful memoir of a healthy, active woman whose life is dramatically altered while on a bus trip with family and friends through the western Pennsylvania Highlands. In a flash, she is incapacitated, and her foray into the wilderness of a major stroke begins. Her counterpunch to sudden powerlessness -- the will to recover -- inspires and gives hope to others facing a lengthy rehabilitation from brain injury. This ver...

I Must Have Wandered is a vivid hybrid memoir told through lyrical prose, letters, fragments, and photos of an infant relinquished at birth in post-World War11 South Carolina, and her closed adoption by native New Yorkers stationed in the state. The author reflects on the primal loss, and the separations of a transient military lifestyle. Follow her through her coming of age in the turbulent '60s, as she defines and defies the barriers to her ...

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