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birth certificates
I think this rambling/question deals more than with the question of legal documents. I believe it deals with the very question of who we are....or who we think we are. Are we what a paper document says?
Are we what a document says our name is?
"What's in a name?"...."A rose by any other name."
When someone asks who we are, we instinctively answer with what our name is. Well, who is that?
We, adoptees, look for the answer of who we are in our original birth certificate or in our natural parents.
We hope to find the answer to who we are once we find our birth mother, birth father, or original birth certificate.
Have we found the answer?
Once we read the document, is that our answer?
Once we meet our birth mother, does she have the answer to who we are?
Is the "hole" that has been in our lives suddenly filled upon meeting our birth parent?
I believe these are the philosophical questions that are asked in the ramblings of the birth certificate question. Anyone else ask these questions? Anyone find the answers?
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