I've just finished watching your beautiful and imoving film. Thank you! Thank you so much for sharing what began as a private experience and allowing us to go on that difficult and fruitful journey. Thank you for telling the whole story, the hard parts and the joyful parts. Thank you for your witness and generosity.
I've been subscribing to Angela's channel (?) for a while and just today saw the link on Substack. My son, the light of our lives, was adopted from Cambodia. He is person of color, his father and I are white. We adopted him at six months old; he is twenty four now. He struggles with addiction.
I've always let him know I would be happy to search for his birth parents. but he has not indicated he wants to. His feelings about them were woven into our lives together and have changed many times. It would be a difficult process. We have no names of parents, only an orphanage and two adoption agencies, one in Cambodia and one in Maryland. Records were not well kept. Adoptions were shut down soon after we returned with our treasure and we learned that baby trafficking had been rampant.
I've been writing about my experience of being an adoptive mother and the mother of son who is an addict and has had other challenges in his life. Reading Angela's essays, seeing her interviews and now watching Closure have all been a gift for me.
I have always dreamt of finding closure for my son. His dreams are unclear.
Thank you again,
Rebecca
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