Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 32: From Stranger to Sister
Looking at a photo of the woman who gave me life, I searched her face for the reflection I had spent decades performing, only to find it in the smile of a sister I was about to call.
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AUTHOR’S NOTE FROM THE CAVE STUDIO:
Recording this in our Cave Studio in Tulbagh, that phone call changed everything. Keith is at the controls, and the moment I found my reflection in my sister’s smile is one I will carry forever.
ABOUT THIS SNAPSHOT:
A photograph of the birth mother becomes a mirror that reveals a stranger’s face, but the sister’s smile holds the reflection Elmarie has always performed. The shattering of the performed self and the forge of a biological bond are visceral.
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