When My Biological Mother Rejected Me, Another Woman's Words Helped Me Heal

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By: Corin Hirsch / The Guardian Translation: Telegrafi.com Sometimes we learn the deepest truths in the most ordinary moments. One afternoon, when I was six, I watched a character giving birth in a military tent on the sitcom M*A*S*H. I immediately ran from the living room to the kitchen, with a very important question for my mother. “Was I born in a tent like that?” I said, hoping to learn my origin story. Suddenly, my mother left the room, cry…