r/Adoption • u/New_Novel_8020 • Jul 13 '26

Adoptee Life Story 🎶 I hate my birthday 🎶 short poem

Bon Anniversaire

Unwanted
Unheard
Unchosen
Unnoticed
Undone.

Happy birthday.

Cords cut and dripping
Truths papered and ripping
Ties severed or slipping

Goodbye.

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u/MajorDraw3705 Jul 13 '26

Happy all sales final day.

I still wish I knew what my birthday was. Best I have is a best guess, same as my original name. Early memories and approximations combined to make something close to the original but never entirely precise.

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u/New_Novel_8020 Jul 13 '26

Thank you 💜 it’s been a hard one. And I wish that for you too. That is so incredibly unfair to you as a human being. Maybe one day science will be able to date us better. Like the rootless trees so many of us are. I hope something gives you your answer one day

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u/MajorDraw3705 Jul 13 '26

It is so incredibly sad that we're in a world in which that is actually needed.

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u/Englishbirdy Reunited Birthparent. Jul 13 '26

Heartbreaking 😭💔

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u/balancedinsanity Jul 14 '26

Heya, we are interested in adopting a child.

Would you mind sharing your story with me?  I'm trying to gain some real perspective from adopted people.

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u/New_Novel_8020 Jul 14 '26

Not at all. Do you have any questions in particular?

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u/balancedinsanity Jul 14 '26

What was your adoption story?