The Girl with Three Birthdays
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The Girl with Three Birthdays

An Adopted Daughter's Memoir of Tiaras, Tough Truths, and Tall Tales

  1. 231 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Girl with Three Birthdays

An Adopted Daughter's Memoir of Tiaras, Tough Truths, and Tall Tales

About this book

Patti Eddington always knew she was adopted, and her beloved parents seemed amenable enough to questions—but she never wanted to hurt them by expressing curiosity, so she didn’t. The story of her mother cutting off and dying her hair when she was a toddler? She thought it was eccentric and funny, nothing more. When she discovered at fifteen that her birthday wasn’t actually her birthday? She believed it when her mother said she’d changed it to protect her from the “nosy old biddies” who might try to discover her identity.

It wasn’t until decades later, when a genealogy test led Patti to her biological family (including an aunt with a shocking story) and the discovery of yet another birthday, that she really began to integrate what she thought she knew about her origins. Determined to know the truth, she finally petitioned a court to unseal records that had been locked up for almost sixty years—and began to put the pieces of her past together, bit by painstaking bit.

Framed by a brief but poignant 1963 “Report of Investigation” based on a caseworker’s one-day visit to Patti’s childhood home, The Girl With Three Birthdays tells the story of an adoptee who always believed she was the answer to a couple’s seventeen-year journey to become parents, until a manila envelope from a rural county court arrived and caused her to question . . . everything.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2024
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781647426514
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. Here’s the Thing About the Truth
  7. Chapter 2. Beauty Lesson
  8. Chapter 3. A Pretty Dress and Probate Court
  9. Chapter 4. Like Jagged Confetti
  10. Chapter 5. Daddy-O
  11. Chapter 6. Just How Are You Going to Fix That?
  12. Chapter 7. Stubborn and Stoic
  13. Chapter 8. A Failed Typing Test and Food by Mr. Hot Dog
  14. Chapter 9. Purgatory vs. Church of the Last Resort
  15. Chapter 10. Application to Adopt a Child
  16. Chapter 11. Hula-Hoop Queen
  17. Chapter 12. Morrice: A Nice Place To . . .
  18. Chapter 13. A Mousecake of Bread and Dried Peas
  19. Chapter 14. First Family
  20. Chapter 15. I Know Who You Are
  21. Chapter 16. And Yet Another Birthday
  22. Chapter 17. Back at the Courthouse
  23. Chapter 18. Unsealing the Record
  24. Chapter 19. A Very Nice Car
  25. Chapter 20. Nobody Except Ray
  26. Chapter 21. Tampering With a Grave Is a Felony
  27. Chapter 22. The Anti-funeral
  28. Chapter 23. Mexican Blood
  29. Chapter 24. Peeling off the Paper
  30. Chapter 25. Sally Squirrel Gets a New Hat
  31. Chapter 26. My Theory
  32. Chapter 27. The Thing About the Truth, Redux
  33. Chapter 28. Losing Aunt Eva
  34. Epilogue
  35. Acknowledgments
  36. About the Author
  37. Selected Titles from She Writes Press

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