Later that day when I was playing in the front porch making a playhouse for myself with blankets under my brown metal crib, and the others were playing outside, I knew that Mama and Daddy were not happy. Mama had yelled at Daddy and said, “I need a divorce now. You should have done it while you were overseas.” I didn’t know what that meant but I knew it didn’t sound very nice.
A few days later Daddy left.
“Why was I left behind?” five-year-old Heather wonders. So begins a tale of abandonment, a tale of growing up in the 40s and 50s always feeling different within her family and her neighbourhood. It is a story of achievement on many levels. There are challenges of adoptions, mental health issues and cancer.
This is a story of a search for identity and the validation of that identity. It is a story of love and acceptance. “A time to keep silence, and a time to speak” Ecclesiastes 3:7
