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Synopsis of E Book

>title: MacKenzie\'s Hope
> author: Terri Rimmer
> email address: wordtrix@hotmail.com
> ebook price: $10.00
> paperback price: $
> hardback price: $
> format: ebook
> pages: 238
> category: Family
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> sample chapters: Chapter One
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> KEYWORDS:
>Birth moms, adoption
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> SHORT DESCRIPTION:
>A true story of a birth mom\'s experience placing her child in an open
adoption.
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> LONG DESCRIPTION:
>MacKenzie’s hope is the true story of one birth mom’s experience placing
her child in a semi-open adoption while living in a maternity home in Fort
Worth, TX. The story takes place in the year 2000 and includes a childhood
background of the author/birth mom detailing her many obstacles throughout
life such as alcoholism, depression, sexual and physical abuse, sex
addiction, and bipolar disorder. While the story is at times tragic it is
also the portrait of a woman who will not and does not give up despite
what others tell her throughout her life.
>
>The story begins when Tara, the birth mom finds out she is pregnant for
the first time at the age of 34. For 14 years she did not think she was
physically capable of having children so this pregnancy news was a huge
shock and not happy news given the birth mom’s mental and physical
conditions. The birth mom is in constant conflict, which she later
resolves, between society’s expectations of her as a mother preparing to
have a child and her own resolve to give her child the home she deserves.
Tara deals continuously with guilt, shame, remorse, and regret before,
during, and after her decision to place her only child for adoption,
however she does come to terms with her commitment eventually after a
series of painful and intense self-discoveries on her path to peace and
happiness.
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>The book gives the reader a rare look at what it is like to make an
adoption decision from the birth mom’s standpoint and also includes the
experiences of the adoptive parents, the birth mom’s siblings, adoptive
parents’ families, and other adoptive children, the birth father,
biological grandparents, relatives, and house parents who work in the
maternity home. The story is one of rich detail and imagery captured from
the eyes of the birth mom and her emotions, experiences, and memories
coupled with the communications from her significant others which include
a close relationship with the adoptive parents she later chooses for her
child.
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