“I may have been unplanned, but not unwanted.” This single line from I Am Who I Am Because of Them wrapped itself around my heart and wouldn’t let go. It holds the kind of truth that lingers in the air like a whisper from the universe — gentle, yet impossible to ignore.
Shanda’s memoir is a delicate tapestry of longing and love, woven with golden threads of hope. She writes with a softness that lands like a feather on the heart, yet the emotions run deep. As a fellow adoptee, I felt the familiar ache of our shared journey — the yearning to connect with our roots, the bittersweet joy of reunion, and the silent spaces where love and loss coexist. But within these pages, I also felt something else: a quiet kind of magic. Because in the search for belonging, sometimes love finds us in the most unexpected ways.
This isn’t just a memoir — it’s a homecoming. A story that doesn’t promise perfect endings but instead offers something far more precious: truth, beautifully told. Shanda’s words don’t just speak; they sing — a melody of resilience, discovery, and the undeniable power of love to mend even the most fractured of beginnings.
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