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Lauren Kofalt

Poems

Time Time flies by In the blink of an eye How should I spend my day So many things that I could do But in my bed i just lay Being...

Heather Lewis

Musings of a Middle-aged Matriarch: Looking exotic sitting at Cracker Barrel

I was adopted into a small farming community with one blinking stop light. For all my life, I was surrounded by people who did not look...

Dr. Kyung-eun Lee

Dialogues With Adoptees: ‘Vincenzo’ and adoption myth entrenched in Korean society

Reposted from The Korea Times This article is the 25th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected...

Samantha Der

Are You Me? The Noodles That Tie Us

I loved my shirt With three pockets of color Gym shoes Blue shorts And black hair That flopped over My gold-rimmed glasses I was ready...

Dr. Kyung-eun Lee

Dialogues With Adoptees: Secrets of birth — Multiple layers of falsehoods in Korea’s birth documents

Reposted from The Korea Times This article is the 23rd in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected...

OSH

Introducing Yalian Li

Yalian Li is a filmmaker currently located in Los Angeles. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Baylor University when she was 19...

Dr. Kyung-eun Lee

Dialogues With Adoptees: Intercountry adoption is about human rights, not charity

Reposted from The Korea Times This article is the 18th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected...

Cynthia Landesberg

The Strings That Bind Us

I sit at my desk, laptop open, staring at a blank screen. I am supposed to be writing a letter to my 9-year-old son’s birth mother in...

Dr. Kyung-eun Lee

Dialogues With Adoptees: Intercountry adoptions 1985-92 — a numbers game for Korea’s national image

Reposted from The Korea Times This article is the 17th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected...