Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 10: How Could You?! A soul shredded by secrets, I watched from above as my son's fragmenting world incinerated the very fabric of the roof I thought was a sanctuary. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along...
Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 9: Ink of the Soul Standing in the Oudtshoorn veld, I watched as a name I had never heard — Eljoshijka — spilled from my pen to reconcile the simultaneous death and birth of my existence. 🎧 Stream the full series:...
Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 8: Born to Search In a room filled with rivers of tears, the walls of my adult defenses dissolved into a hypnotherapeutic vision of a womb that felt more like a prison. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read...
Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 7: Fuck You, Too! Nine sentences of cold, bureaucratic ink arrived to slice through fifty years of sacred fantasy, reducing the woman who gave me life to a biological entity with a 'Standard 8' education. 🎧 Stream the full series:...
Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 6: Motherhood Unscripted While the world mourned a fallen princess, I cradled my own, unaware that the umbilical cord twice-wrapped around her neck was the precursor to a life of needles and pain. 🎧 Stream the full series:...
Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 5: The Unasked Question Beneath the adoration of a whirlwind romance, a celestial banner unfurled in my soul with a single, devastating query: why did you detest my every movement inside of you? 🎧 Stream the full series:...
Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 4: A Life Reborn Returning to the same maternal ward where my own displacement began, I felt the peculiar convergence of destiny as a tiny miracle latched onto my breast to claim a lineage I had been afraid to seek. 🎧 Stream the full...
Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 3: My Unseen Self A suitcase retrieved from a cupboard and placed on a childhood bed became the silent anchor for a lifelong vow: it is safer to perform than to be real. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read...
Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 2: Little Lamb I was taught to radiate a borrowed joy, mirroring a family narrative that told me I was chosen only because I was the prettiest baby in the room. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along...
Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 1: Beyond the Umbilical As the golden cord of love finally severed in that hospital room, I found myself standing in a hollow space where the only remaining presence was the unwelcome friend of numbness. 🎧 Stream the full series:...
Un-Adoptically Me — My story. My truth. My voice. | Introduction Before the first snapshot begins, a word from the Cave Studio — and from the woman who lived every chapter of this story. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along...
Un-Adoptically Me — My story. My truth. My voice. | Dedication & Foreword Reconnecting after fifty-one years, I realized that our shared silence was merely the rhythmic prelude to an odyssey of magic that neither of us was prepared to name. (Sonnette Lombaard) 🎧...
Un-Adoptically Me — My story. My truth. My voice. | Opening Credits Before the first snapshot begins, a word from the studio: this memoir was written by the woman who lived it, and narrated by the same woman who survived it. Welcome to Cave Studio, Tulbagh. The story...
For fifty-one years, I lived inside borrowed names and polite silences — chosen and abandoned in the same breath, taught gently not to ask too many questions. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (Free PDF/EPUB):...