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Short description of the content of e book: MacKenzie’s Hope

By Terri Rimmer

A true story of a birth mom’s experience placing her newborn child in a semi-open adoption. The book details the author’s adventures living in a maternity home in Fort Worth, TX while awaiting the birth of her child and takes the reader through the adoption maze before, during, and after the biological mom’s experience. The story also includes detailed emails and other correspondence between the birth mom and the prospective adoptive parents of her child while giving the reader a unique experience of seeing what the adoption process is like for all parties involved from beginning to end as well as the impact the birth mom’s decision has on her life.

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