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Title: I'm a fellow adoptee and I can't relate to this book.
Review: I found this book to be drawn-out and the author's views to be slightly presumptuous. The recurring theme of pushing away the birth family gets old quickly, and the book takes on a whiny tone. Certain aspects are over-dramatized. After seeing Saffian at a book fair, I wanted to relate to this book, but found the author's focus on herself to be smothering and alienating. On the positive side, Saffian is successful in not jumping to one side of the fence or the other in the open/closed records debate. While she wasn't sure she wanted her birth parents to find her, she also seemed to be at peace with them by the end of the book.
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