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Closed adoption, heralded as the answer to the problem of unplanned pregnancy, shows its other side in A Life Let Go, A Memoir and Five Birth Mother Stories of Closed Adoption. These women tell how they experienced unplanned pregnancy in the restrictiveness of the last decades of the twentieth century. All gave up a child in closed adoption-the only option-understanding they would never see them again, a dark contract made under great duress. 1972: Patricia is not yet 16 when her parents learn she is pregnant. They decide she will stay hidden in the house and give the baby up for adoption....

Closed adoption, heralded as the answer to the problem of unplanned pregnancy, shows its other side in A Life Let Go, A Memoir and Five Birth Mother Stories of Closed Adoption. These women tell how they experienced unplanned pregnancy in the restrictiveness of the last decades of the twentieth century. All gave up a child in closed adoption--the only option--understanding they would never see them again, a dark contract made under great duress.

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1972: Patricia is not yet 16 when her parents learn she is pregnant. They decide she will stay hidden in the...

KNOCKING FROM THE INSIDE is a story in poetry of middle age reigniting one woman's desire to wake up spiritually amid the chaotic busyness of family and work, love and pain, life and death.

"If it seems a mystery is hiding in plain sight in these poems, it is. It is Grace. Like a field biologist in camouflage, she steals through the vast territories of a woman's heart, capturing its steady rhythm on the page." -HEATHER MURPHY

"From the deepest depths to the farthest reaches of a woman's body, heart, spirit, and soul, Patricia taps into and brings forth a universal story of Woman. As I...