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		<title>Interview With Nancy Verrier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interview by Livia Montana Livia Montana: The Primal Wound is an integral book for many adoptees, as well as adoptive parents and birthparents. What originally inspired you to explore the ideas that you talk about in that book? Nancy Verrier: When I gave birth to my second daughter, I thought about what it must have been like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Not to Say to a Birth Mother/Natural Mother/1st Mother/Original Mother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Guest Blogger Tamera Slack, birth mother and adoptee, click here&#62;&#62; for more information on Adoption Mosaic Bloggers. Don’t refer to our children as “gifts” Gifts are something you “create or buy” with the intention to give away. Birth Mothers don’t intentionally get pregnant to give children away as “gifts.” Rather, you were given the “gift” of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adoptionmosaic.org/what-not-to-say-to-a-birth-mothernatural-mother1st-motheroriginal-mother/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Mama, did you just smell me?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Um, yes honey. Yes I did.&#8221; I smell her all the time. I smell her breath, I smell her hair, and the top of her head. Smell is such a powerful sense, and I love my daughter&#8217;s scent. Through scent I am drawn to her, and her to me, it is instinctual and innate. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adoptionmosaic.org/mama-did-you-just-smell-me/</link>
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		<title>The Ever Striding Polka Adoptee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true. Our very own Shelise Gieseke knows how to polka. I&#8217;ve known her for three years now, and I never knew that about her. I learned it from this interview she gave to blogger Kevin Ost-Vollmers who blogs at Land of Gazillion Adoptees. Check it out! She talks about her passion for adoption education and support, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adoptionmosaic.org/the-ever-striding-polka-adoptee/</link>
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		<title>The Adoption Constellation Spring Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a peek at the first couple pages, and a few inside pages of the spring 2011 issue of Adoption Mosaic&#8217;s magazine The Adoption Constellation, and be sure to read our post about the on-line magazine reader we&#8217;ve chosen to use. Open publication &#8211; Free publishing &#8211; More adoption For information about submitting an article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adoptionmosaic.org/the-adoption-constellation-spring-issue/</link>
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		<title>Who Am I?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Guest Blogger Amee Finigan click here&#62;&#62; for more information on Adoption Mosaic Bloggers. I remember the exact times and places in which I first felt as though I was “different.” No, it wasn’t the times in which my parents and I had the “talk” about my adoption. One day in elementary school, I was walking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adoptionmosaic.org/who-am-i/</link>
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		<title>All About the Hair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hair is a big deal. We talk about it a lot at Adoption Mosaic, behind the scenes, on the blog, in The Adoption Constellation magazine, and in our workshop African American Hair Care. Whether we like it or not, hair matters. Here is an interesting perspective from Workshop for Beginners blog, the author is a white adoptive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adoptionmosaic.org/all-about-the-hair/</link>
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		<title>Subscription Giveaway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catherine, who blogs at Mama C and the Boys, an amazing writer and one of our favorite bloggers, is running a contest to give away a free one year subscription to The Adoption Constellation magazine. To enter you can do two of three things (from her post): 1) Sign up to receive Mama C and the Boys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adoptionmosaic.org/subscription-giveaway/</link>
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		<title>Reunion &#8211; The Whole Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended Adoption Mosaic&#8217;s first ever Reunion Panel this past weekend. The panel was split into two portions. In the morning we heard from adoptees who were in the early stages of their reunion journey. The afternoon was reserved for adoptees and their birth parents who had been reunited for ten years or more. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adoptionmosaic.org/reunion-is-so-much-more/</link>
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		<title>Humor and Adoption, an Uneasy Balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Adoption Constellation magazine: &#8220;Behind the Scenes&#8221; Humor and Adoption, An Uneasy Balance Most everything in the world, no matter how poignant, can be viewed through the lens of humor. However, when it comes to adoption, there is sometimes an uncomfortable pause before anyone giggles at the punch line. It’s a pause that seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adoptionmosaic.org/humor-and-adoption-an-uneasy-balance/</link>
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