For me the birth family search was a formality…a line item on my master “life” list. Anyone who knows me knows I am an obsessive list maker, so of course I have a list of things I wanted to do/accomplish before thinking of starting a family.
This pre-baby bucket list spans several categories including things like pay off student loans, re-finance the mortgage, establish our careers, and visit my birth country, to name a few. Everything is checked off with the exception of visiting my birth country and initiating a birth family search (more about that under About).
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