Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 33: Thoughts Unraveling
Through the crackle of a phone line, I discovered that the woman who gave me away was herself a foster child who had been forced to swear on a Bible that she would never come looking for me.
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AUTHOR’S NOTE FROM THE CAVE STUDIO:
Recording this in our Cave Studio in Tulbagh, the irony of that enforced oath is something I will never fully absorb. Keith is at the controls, and the crackle of that phone line is still in my ear.
ABOUT THIS SNAPSHOT:
A phone call through a crackling line reveals the birth mother as herself a foster child, sworn on a Bible never to search. The cycle of inherited trauma and the law of enforced silence unravel the myth of maternal abandonment.
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