Intercountry Adoption Centre, the IAC, as a communications officer and am passionate about helping other families and adopted children.
For a long time, I didn’t feel the need to look for my birth mother. The desire to experience Chile came earlier; as a teen, I learned Spanish and visited Santiago.
I went to see the orphanage, and was blown away to discover this huge, cosmopolitan city rather than the dusty shanty town of my imagination.I felt I’d rounded off my story, but things changed when I lost my adoptive mum in 2010, a few months after marrying my husband Michael.
There’s an extra sense of loss when your adoptive mum is no longer with you. When I had my first child, Benji in 2012, I missed her even more.
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