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.

Fearless Women's Summit April 26 - Jacksonville, FL

Fearless Women’s Summit Jacksonville! Tickets, Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite A portion of the proceeds benefit The Women's Center of Jacksonville, FL Cindy Persico Fearless Jacksonville Event Host Cindy Persico is a dynamic entrepreneur and revitalizer who has made it her mission to help empower and inspire any human trying to find their highest self, but especially girls and women overcoming adversity. As a former foster teen, Cindy has persevered through incredible odds as an incest survivor to be the first in her family to graduate from college as she earned her degree in psychology from Jacksonville University and then a master’s in counseling from the University of Florida eventually becoming a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida and a National Certified Employee Assistance Professional. She has helped hundreds of employers from healthcare to technology firms to school systems to bring out the best in their employees by providing counsel...

To My Daughter On Her 4th Birthday

August 2004 Dear McKenna: I've been debating what to write for your annual birthday letter wanting to give you bright, happy thoughts. I can't believe you're going to be four years old on the 15th. It seems like only a blink away I saw you swaddled in white in the hospital. I'm so glad you have such a great family inVicki and Larry. Vicki loves you so much and sends me emails all the time about how you're doing. Larry taped your first dance recital recently which I can't wait to see. They tell me you're having your party at the water park that you love. I know you'll have a blast. In my usual tradition I'll be releasing the balloons at the park where we had Placement - four of them this year. I'll watch them float up to the sky and again wish you a happy birthday as the balloons climb higher and higher into the clouds. My once deep sorrow has now turned into heartfelt happiness knowing that you enjoy a new, good life each day with your adoptive p...

Merged Life

By Terri Rimmer Born into an alcoholic family as the youngest of four girls I had no idea of the abuse that would come to torment my life for 14 years. Both my mother and father were harsh abusers, my father sexually, my mom physically. How can a young girl possibly grow into a health adolescent when what she knows about life is taught by the hands of a sick man and mother intent to poison? I may not ever understand, but perhaps that is my journey. I always knew I wanted to be a writer when in the third grade I got an A plus on a short story I wrote. I loved it and wrote every chance I got at my dadÃ‚’s encouragement and the feeling and dream reverberated in my soul, refusing to leave me ever. When I was 8 I was devastated to learn of my parents divorcing and to add insult to injury my mom left my sisters and me with our dad. My older sister, Cindy became my hero. She fluffed my pajamas in the dryer before bed, sewed my Girl Scout badges on my uniform, comforted me when the ...

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