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An article about the book "The Girls Who Went Away" caught my eye in our local newspaper The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida. Back in 1986 my son got his high school girlfriend (a foster child) pregnant. They planned to have a secret abortion but I convinced them to face the music. My firstborn grandson was born in Miami and given up for adoption. For all these years I have been carrying around all the information on his birth in hopes that someday I can find him. A part of me is missing. Is there a book for grandparents?
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
KraftyKRae, July 18, 2007
An article about the book "The Girls Who Went Away" caught my eye in our local newspaper The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida. Back in 1986 my son got his high school girlfriend (a foster child) pregnant. They planned to have a secret abortion but I convinced them to face the music. My firstborn grandson was born in Miami and given up for adoption. For all these years I have been carrying around all the information on his birth in hopes that someday I can find him. A part of me is missing. Is there a book for grandparents?(2 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)