Mother's Day
This year has been a difficult Mother's Day. This year I was able to obtain my Indian adoption paperwork from the Texas court. The ones that my adoptive parents never kept. This is the year I learn more about who the woman who gave birth to me than I've ever known. Within the paperwork was an Affidavit from the Indian government that stated I was abandoned. This is what it said: There is a male minor child 'Anoop' (corrected with pen to Anup) born on [date of birth] to an unmarried girl and hence he was abandoned by his mother, who gave a necessary written declaration to the Institution and, therefore, the Institution has automatically become the legal guardian of the said male minor child Anoop (corrected with pen to Anup) and has a right to give the said child Anoop in adoption. My entire life determined by my mother's marital status. My mind constantly focuses on her description. An "unmarried girl." A "girl." How old she was that it states sh...