Memoir about my birthmother finding me through my mom's obituary

April 15, 2009 10:37 PM EDT

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I swore I’d never let any birthmother into my life, but then Mom died of ovarian cancer and my birthmother Val found me through my mom's obituary. Hard to argue with fate. Harder still to let go of childhood promises, even when you discover everything you dreamed of being is part of who you are. This memoir explores what it means to be a mother and what it means to lose one. And so Lost and Found: a Memoir of Mothers is for anyone who’s ever loved and lost—or maybe even found—a mother.

Lost and Found: A Memoir of Mothers was released today by North Star Press. It's available on Amazon.com or through my website, www.katevogl.com.

I will be presenting this work at the national convention of the American Adoption Congress in Cleveland on April 26, 2009. I teach a variety of courses at the Loft Literary Center, the largest and most comprehensive literary center in the nation. My fiction has garnered an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, and my essays have been published across the country.

Discover what Lorian Hemingway considers "a beautiful find."

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Solskin Iam Apr 15, 2009, 10:56pm EDT

congratulations and much success with your book.......... i have an adopted daughter...... she is the world to me......

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I love my baby girl more than anything in this world Apr 15, 2009, 10:56pm EDT

Very Interesting.

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Linda M. Apr 15, 2009, 11:01pm EDT

Now that's a first-connecting through an obituary. It must have been very emotional, grieving over the mother that raised you, and then having your biological mother contact you at the same time.

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