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“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. “ Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit I finally made it! I want to live and breathe your culture. See your art. Taste your food. Learn how you think, speak, act and feel. I’m here in Seoul with arms wide open ready to love you and … Continue reading Coming back home
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it George Santayana I’m now living back in the South again — Nashville, Tennessee to be exact. Around this time last year I was in Vegas for CosmoProf, THE beauty industry trade show in North America to see and be seen. Floors with wall-to-wall booths of the latest brands, product innovations and formulations, packaging and … Continue reading Back in America
Dear Korea, On Monday I got an email from NCRC, a post-adoption services organization that has been helping me with my birth family search including getting my adoption article published with Yonhap News last week. The email mentioned that a man had called over the weekend whose elder sister fit the description of my story. At the exact same age, she already had 4 daughters … Continue reading Finding a different kind of family
Dear Korea, I’ve had the good fortune to meet people in Korea who have been willing and able to help me with every part of living here. Often it’s felt surreal. Thanks to a couple fellow adoptees, I’ve been able to make steps in my birth family search that would be difficult otherwise because my story doesn’t have a name or a traceable line of … Continue reading Visiting my orphanage
Dear Korea, Today I finally spent time in the city where I was born without the weight of a birth family search. Without the pressure of accomplishment within a limited timeframe. I watched local fisherman arrive by boat with their catch. I saw architecture still preserved from the Japanese occupation. Gunsan was a valuable port in the late 19th century for rice during that time. … Continue reading Exploring my roots in Korea
Love Letters to Korea 