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Amy on Instagram: "Stop asking adoptees to forget or be silent about their mothers or birth family. It is cruel to ignore and deny the grief adoptees experience and and the significance of their loss 💔 #adoptee #nomoresilence"

"Adoption is a beautiful thing." Oh how often I hear those words and it makes me cringe... Yes. Adoption can be a beautiful story. It's obviously a story of love - the love of a birthmother who put her child's needs before her own desires and the love of new adoptive parents for this tiny precious human. It can be the story of a couple who long awaited their first child through years of infertility and waiting finally becoming a family. It can be the story of a couple bringing a child out of…