Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese | JCCSF

[@vickikent2192]

I was 23, married to a man older than I was who had his vasectomy unsuccessfully reversed. We were working with an infertility gynecologist at Stanford. I had an appointment to be donor inseminated in a week, when I realized that bringing in a child to what had become a strained marriage was not the right thing for anyone. I backed out. I had a total emotional meltdown. My instincts were right...it wasn't the right thing to have done. But I came so close to doing this that this resonates into my heart and soul.

[@MsKents]

My bookclub just had our book discussion about Dani Shapiro's book Inheritance, and we all enjoyed it. It brought a lot of discussion about identity; how our environment shapes us verses DNA.

[@davidgudroe424]

I am so happy to have come across this on KZbin as I too have just learned of and found my biological father as well as 5 siblings on Ancestry. I have had the same feelings that you have described. At first I was not sure what to do with what I found on Ancestry. I did decide to write to my biological father and he called me. We have since met. He is 85 years old. I had a wonderful Dad growing up who loved me with all of his heart, but I too always had the feeling of being different. I loved my dad and he will always be my Dad, but meeting my biological father felt like being home. Yes he did feel like the country I was from too. You described that perfectly. We have only just found each other and everything is new.

[@susanallen6526]

Just finished Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese - anyone else see an irony here? 😀

[@irvinkudzanaishangwa1306]

Phillipos, Mariamma

[@gloriamitchell3518]

❤

[@bmichaelr1]

I want to suggest that her husband suspected or knew the "unthought known". That's just my mind. I know I am wrong. But the thought jumped through my mind.

[@susanallen6526]

Interesting. Hmmmm.