Table of Contents

	With Thanks	p. x
	Introduction: Pieces of Me, Who do I Want to Be?	p. 1
	Gathering the Pieces	p. 5
	Gathering the Pieces	p. 5
	My Birthmark: Finding My Real Family	p. 6
	The Dance	p. 9
	My Search, My Lessons	p. 10
	Finding My Mother, Finding Myself	p. 12
	Thanks to my Birthmother on my Birthday	p. 13
	Grace's Story	p. 16
	Hat in Hand	p. 18
	Search for Connections	p. 20
	A Little "Brother"	p. 23
	What Real Love Truly Is	p. 24
	Bar Harbor Chris or My First Case of Girl Love	p. 28
	Onni and Me: A Lifelong Search for an Asian Role Model	p. 29
	My Difference	p. 31
	Sock Bunnies	p. 33
	Blood Matters	p. 36
	Draw How You Feel	p. 38
	Stolen Pieces	p. 39
	39 Stolen Pieces	p. 39
	They Say	p. 40
	How I Felt About My Baby	p. 41
	I Cry	p. 41
	Looking for Mary	p. 42
	I Can't Be Loved	p. 43
	Dear Mum	p. 44
	"The Burn on my Hand"	p. 45
	The Drain	p. 47
	My Name is Amy Martin	p. 48
	Some Thoughts About My Adoption	p. 50
	Glove and Ball	p. 52
	Thirteen Years	p. 53
	We With Two Mothers	p. 53
	Adopted and Abused	p. 54
	ADOPTIONS	p. 55
	The Queen Redeemed	p. 57
	Why I Cut Myself	p. 59
	The Test	p. 60
	Being a Transracial Adoptee	p. 61
	About a Boy	p. 65
	Cost of Connection: My Life	p. 67
	Sandcastles and Waves	p. 68
	Vanished Like Time	p. 69
	White Skin on My Hands	p. 70
	Twenty-seven	p. 72
	Two Worlds	p. 73
	Born Running	p. 74
	Postcards From the Edge: Foster Care Alumni of America	p. 75
	Fitting the Pieces	p. 77
	Fitting the Pieces	p. 77
	The Lifelong Journey	p. 78
	I Am a Bastard	p. 79
	The Proverbial Bag of Crap	p. 81
	Out on a Limb	p. 82
	Our Echo	p. 83
	Feeling Fostered	p. 87
	Which One of These is Not Like the Other?	p. 91
	Happily Ever After	p. 92
	Ben	p. 93
	Heritage Poem	p. 94
	Finding Rest in an "Adoptee" Culture	p. 95
	I Just Missed You, That's All	p. 97
	My Pieces and My Daughter's Pieces	p. 98
	The Road	p. 101
	I Think There Shoud Be a Law	p. 102
	Inner Soul	p. 105
	Best Mates on the Bus	p. 106
	I'm Sending You Away for a Year to Save Your Life	p. 108
	Lauren's Story	p. 109
	The Collage	p. 110
	Sharing the Pieces	p. 111
	Sharing the Pieces	p. 111
	Voices of Children in Limbo	p. 112
	Who Am I?	p. 113
	Is it Me or My Mask?	p. 114
	A Use for Your Senses	p. 115
	Just a Thought	p. 115
	To Tell or Not to Tell? A "Narrative Burden"	p. 116
	This is My Life	p. 117
	Somewhere in the Middle	p. 119
	Three Wishes	p. 120
	Grounding	p. 120
	Advice From a Teen Adoptee	p. 121
	Owing	p. 121
	battle cry/undone	p. 122
	Giving Back to My Homeland	p. 124
	Legacy	p. 125
	No More Running: Moving Beyond Foster Care	p. 126
	DNA Song	p. 128
	Just Like You	p. 129
	An Innocent Grows Up	p. 129
	Coming Out Again	p. 130
	Waking Up America	p. 132
	Dear Lucy	p. 133
	A Bored Game	p. 134
	Tag Cloud T-Shirt	p. 136
	Where do These Pieces Go?	p. 137
	Where Do These Pieces Go?	p. 137
	Red Streak of Blue Sky	p. 138
	My Mixed Race Perspective	p. 139
	Dust to Dust	p. 142
	Polaroid Past	p. 144
	Running from Racism	p. 145
	Longing for You	p. 147
	How Do I Move Into the Light	p. 148
	Mr. Yin	p. 149
	The Girl at the Window	p. 151
	How I'll Remain	p. 152
	Let It Go	p. 154
	Precious Jade	p. 155
	"I Don't Know"	p. 157
	Pieces of Me Puzzles	p. 159
	The Journey is only Begining	p. 161
	Ways to Connect	p. 163

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