You Don't Look Adopted

by Anne Heffron

Can writing your story save your life?I should have come with a manual. My parents thought they were getting one thing when they adopted me--a baby of their own--when what they got was a human being with a story of her own. As a child, I traded safety for silence.As an adult, I had no idea who I was, why I quit nearly everything I started, why I struggled with things that came more easily to my friends (jobs, relationships, finances, self-esteem), why I seemed hell-bent on throwing myself away. It got to the point where I didn't care if telling my story was going to kill me: I was going to find a way to tell it, because living a life that felt like a lie was unbearable.In order to write this book, I moved away from everything I knew, maxed out my credit cards, borrowed from friends and family, had lots of sex with strangers. Nearly penniless, I was living like a millionaire in the apartment of a fabulously famous writer. I was finally listening to my own voice. I ate cheesecake for dinner and fell in love with the East Village. I broke almost every rule I ran into because I was afraid this kind of freedom couldn't go on forever. As I wrote, I lived every day as if it were my last. I was in for such a surprise.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1086423437
• ISBN13: 9781086423433
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"