Have you Ever Met Your Birth Mom? – Birth Mom Missions provides a much needed (and often overlooked) service to women who have placed their child for adoption. We offer guidance before, after and during the adoption process to all women who ask, regardless of their choices made. Much of this is done through phone conversations, emails, letters, prayers and social networking correspondence. We are dedicated to providing nonjudgmental assistance to any woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and guidance for those who choose to become birth mothers. Birth Mothers have parted with a huge piece of themselves. Even the most independent woman will tell you that having a child changes a woman’s view of herself. Placing that child is akin to letting go of a piece of yourself. We offer local supportive groups (growing nationwide) made up of women who have been through the similar experiences. We want to provide young women in the future with the knowledge and support that we wish we had from a birth mother. Someone who knew what it was like and was unbiased. Someone to talk to us, inform us, guide us, emphasize with us, and answer all our silly questions. One goal of the mission is to someday see every pregnant woman that is considering adoption,to have at least one birth mother mentor. The mission touches the lives of those adopted, adoptive parents, hopeful adoptive parents, pregnant woman at risk, the unborn, and other parts of society in ways yet to be seen. Some background: It seems that the grief which results …

The horror in this story of a man undone by grief is not supernatural, but …

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In the first collected editions of the books, King wrote an introduction in which he said that Roadwork was written when he was "grieving and shaken by the apparent senselessness of it". He says the book is the worst of the Bachmans, simply because it …
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REVIEW: Two Mothers Bond over Grief for Lost Children

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This is a book for a select audience — parents who have lost children and who are dealing with the grieving process. The authors, Armen Bacon and Nancy Miller, each lost a child to a drug overdose. Bacon lost her son, Alex, when he was in his early …
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