title: Like Rain on a Dry Place: A Birth Mother's Story
author:  Wendy Salisbury Howe 
description: Since her first son found her, Wendy Salisbury Howe (born 1944) has become involved with a local adoption agency, speaking frequently to groups of prospective adoptive parents. Excerpts from Like Rain on a Dry Place have appeared in "The Adoption Constellation Magazine." She was filmed twice by the Education Institute of Kinship Center as part of their national educational series. 10 Things: Adoption Search and Reunion presents the issues for adoptees and birth parents to consider in search and reunion. It is available from Amazon. She also appeared in A Work in Progress: Birth Parents and Adopted Persons Talk About Search and Reunion, a training film for professionals. In addition to being the birth mother of a Danish son and a mother to three American children, she is an Episcopal priest. She spends her time telling stories (in sermons) and hearing stories (in pastoral conversations). She was ordained in her 50s, after following her heart through many endeavors, including free-lance writing, coordinating a survey of local Victorian homes, and owning a quilt shop. She has also completed a second manuscript, a work of fiction called Auntie, about an unmarried woman who is unexpectedly confronting her past.
zlib_text: **************************************************** Author: Alan Dean Foster
  Title: For Love Of Mother-Not Original copyright year: 1983 Genre: Science
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  *************************************************** Chapter One
  
  �Now there�s a scrawny, worthless-looking little runt.� Mother Mastiff
  thought. She cuddled the bag of woodcarvings a little closer to her waist,
  mating certain it was protected from the rain by a flap of her slickertic. The
  steady drizzle that characterized Drallar�s autumn weather fled from the
  water-resistant material. Offworlders were hard pressed to distinguish any
  difference in the city�s seasons. In the summer, the rain was warm; in autumn
  and winter, it was cooler. Springtime saw it give way to a steady, cloying
  fog. So rare was the appearance of the sun through the near-perpetual cloud
  cover th