Jillian Phillips
AMBITIOUS. COMPASSIONATE. INDEPENDENT I cannot remember a time in my life that I did not know I was donor-conceived. I was raised by the most amazing single mother and never […]
Alissa Burgan
INDEPENDENT. COMPASSIONATE. CREATIVE. I have always known I was adopted. It was pretty obvious, considering I’m a woman of color and my parents are white. Growing up, I was always
Brad Ewell
DRIVEN. INTELLIGENT. PERCEPTIVE. I was born in 1970 and raised in the Dallas, Texas, area by two loving parents. My dad was a pilot, and my mom stayed at home
Eve Anton
DETERMINED. CARING. LOVING I grew up in Hollywood, North Hollywood to be specific, and I always felt as if I didn’t belong. Both my brother and I were very much
Lynne Spencer
MOTHER. EXPLORER. THERAPIST Early in 1993, my dad passed away. A few days later, while walking in the mall with my mother, she said, “There’s something I have to tell
Alicea Fournier
KIND. LOYAL. DEPENDABLE. Like most NPE’s (Non-Parental Event) I came from a very dysfunctional family. I was sent to live with my maternal grandmother when I was five until I
Mark Overbay
CURIOUS. BALANCED. LOVING. Every MPE story has a starting point. The discovery comes entirely by surprise for many, whereas it confirms others’ long-held, conscious or subconscious, suspicions. If there truly
Peter J. Boni
AUTHOR. ADVOCATE. ENTREPRENEUR “Misattributed” was a term totally unfamiliar to me. Misaligned, misinformed, misappropriated, and other “mis” words I comprehended. Only when I faced my own identity crisis did I
Travis Bradburn
HONESTY. FORGIVENESS. GRATITUDE. What makes you…you? What shapes your identity? There are many answers to this question, but I’m going to focus on one that I think is under-appreciated. In
Michèle Dawson Haber
INQUISITIVE. DOGGED. IMPASSIONED. I am a step-adoptee. Until three years ago, I never said these words to myself. It’s not that I didn’t know that my stepfather had adopted me,