Great post, Deanna! I'm so glad you kept on writing your scripts. Maybe you could rewrite Juno and have her keep her child. Now that would be amazing!! Wouldn't she have been just the greatest mother with a little bit of support?
I found my voice after reunion with my beautiful daughter. I started a blog and my friends were amazed at my writing style. My daughter had an issue at one of my posts so I took it down immediately. I don't know if that was the right thing to do but I don't want anything to get between me and my girl. I keep threatening to start an anonymous blog but it seems so unauthentic.

Oh, Larry, you made me cry. It's nice to see that Deanna has someone by her side. She is such a special woman it's nice to see she has a special husband. God is good!

Thanks for bringing this lovely couple to us, Deanna. This is a story of children that needed a home and parents that realize that the adoption is about the children and not about them. I see such promise for everyone even though it most likely will be a struggle.
We don't know what we don't know. Before reunion with my beautiful daughter I bought all the blather that I was a courageous, loving mother who sacrificed herself for the betterment of her child. After reunion I realized how coerced I was. My daughter had to cry herself to sleep many, many nights missing me even though we were separated immediately at birth. Who would have thunk it?
Thank the good Lord for the internet. Lovely parents like Jamie and Donna can read the many perspectives available and do what is best for their family. I give them so much credit for educating themselves. And I think it's wonderful that by doing right by their daughters, they will reap the benefits.
I hope more and more adoptive parents will take this approach. Really, it will make your child bond to you all the more if you support them with their extensive love for their first families. I have read over and over again how relationships with adoptive families get better after reunion takes place. How much better will the (adoptive) parent/child bond be if reunion doesn't even have to happen because openness prevails during the child's upbringing.