Today my birthfather invited my partner and I to visit him in South Carolina when we have our second wedding reception in Illinois in September. When he expressed his interest in showing me his university, I was reminded that I used to think it was all about nurture. I found my birthmother when I was twenty, and we didn't seem to have anything in common. I tended to explain my conjunction of passions by saying my (adoptive) father was originally a journalist, my mother a teac

I found him. I found my son, and he's not like anyone I conceived of in Imagined Sons. He's a smart, playful translator in Japan, and I'm delighted to be getting to know him. #ImaginedSons #SerenBooks #adoption #birthmother