Hidden Girls: A Birth Mother's Story of Reunion & Reckoning

When Julia MacDonnell's relinquished son found her just a few years after Massachusetts opened its sealed adoption records to adult adoptees, she was jubilant. Not only would he forgive her for signing away her parental rights to him nearly a half century before, he'd join his much younger half-siblings in a big happy blended family. She'd be able, at long last, to emerge from the secret that had controlled more than two thirds of her life. But that is not what happened.

Hidden Girls: A Bir...