Oh Harris.

…ffee and send my mom little Mother’s Day bouquets I never see because I order them over the phone. “Look to your future, not to your past. Never call me again,” another adoptee’s maternal grandmother said when she tried to contact her birthfamily, and I can’t get that comment out of my head.
Dispatches From My Half-Hearted Search for My Parents
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Harris Sockel
Mindy Stern
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May 3, 2023
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Oh Harris. This made me cry. All I can say is, here I am, 23 years after hearing those words, and I am more than fine. I am better for what I learned, and for having survived that.
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Written by Mindy Stern9.2K Followers
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Screenwriter. Essayist. Wannabe Novelist. Adoptee. www.themindystern.com
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