National Adoption Month 2021 is ending, and so is the Adoption Stories Project—for now. Here’s what I learned.

Jane relinquished her son at birth and went on to college, against the odds.

Todd reunited with his three brothers and his birth mother when he was in his forties.

*Deborah had fantasies that her birth father worked with the dolphins at Marineland.

Christina adopted her daughter from China and has a tale to tell about transnational and transracial adoption.

Mary was 19 in the mid 1970s when she got pregnant and had to make a difficult decision.

Geraldine was adopted in the Dominican Republic.

Lyn is the adult daughter of an adopted mother whose adoption trauma permeated everything in her life.

Cassandra tells her story of being adopted, growing up, and searching for and reuniting with her birth family.