As a fellow adoptee, I hold immense reverence for anyone who dares to unveil their truth — not for spectacle, but for healing. Road to Belonging is one such unveiling. In its pages, Lynne Leppard doesn’t just recount a life — she invites us into a sacred remembering.
Though we were born worlds apart — Lynne in New Zealand, myself in South Africa — and only months between us, I felt an almost haunting familiarity in her words. The closed adoption era cast a long, often unspoken shadow across so many of us. And yet, in her story, I saw the shape of my own longing. The ache for answers. The quiet persistence of spirit. The undeniable thread of the divine gently guiding her home to herself.
What touched me most was not just what Lynne survived — but how she alchemized it. There’s something luminous in the way she writes. As if each chapter is an offering: to the child who once wondered, to the woman she became, and to all of us still walking our own road toward belonging.
Lynne, thank you for your courage. For your softness. For allowing the sacred to shine through the scars.
In embracing your truth, I somehow feel more whole in mine.
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