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Alicia

Monday, November 25, 2019

Alicia

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"and is your place in heaven
worth giving up these kisses"
- tori amos, cooling 🎵 #bside

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Celebrating the last day of #NaNoWriMo and #NAAM with a mug of makgeolli 🇰🇷 50,080 words written ✍🏼 This memoir is nowhere close to being finished, but it exists now. And that's more than I could say on November 1st. #nanowrimo2019 #adopteevoices #amwriting #writersofig #nationaladoptionawarenessmonth #qwerkywriter

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A picture taking a picture of my picture of @kendallkendrix 😂📷 #auroraexpanded

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i blinked, and our trip was over. almost like a dream. ended the week unexpectedly alone at a hotel (#standbytravel) and had a strong sense of déjà vu this morning. i'm remembering what it was like to be alone in a hotel room 11 years ago after returning from a visit to the adoption agency and learning i had two older sisters. i was filled with emotions and lost in thought with no one to talk to. getting ready for today's flight home, my heart somehow feels both full and broken. i couldn't stop crying after i said goodbye to my sister at the airport yesterday. every time i leave my birth family, it's with more questions than i started. so many things i wish i knew how to say in a language that would have been mine, but is foreign to me now. even though my dream came true when i found them, there are no real happy endings in adoption stories. but there is a chance to write a new chapter. #stephaniewashere #nanowrimo2019 #amwriting #writersofig

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