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02562aam a2200337 i 4500 001 F1DFD1D8199211EFAA2C9EE853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240524010037 008 240523s2024 cau # 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2023915576 020 $a 9781647426507 020 $a 1647426502 035 $a (OCoLC)1390915257 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d HRF $d OCLCO $d CLE $d SILO 084 $a BIOG $b EDD 100 1 $a Eddington, Patti, $e author. 245 14 $a The girl with three birthdays $h [Book] : $b an adopted daughter's memoir of tiaras, tough truths, and tall tales / $c Patti Eddington. 264 1 $a Berkeley, CA : $b She Writes Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 227 pages ; $c 22 cm. 365 $a 01 $b 23.00 520 $a "Patti Eddington always knew she was adopted, and her beloved parents seemed amenable enough to questions--but she never wanted to hurt them by expressing curiosity, so she didnt. The story of her mother cutting off and dying her hair when she was a toddler? She thought it was eccentric and funny, nothing more. When she discovered at fifteen that her birthday wasnt actually her birthday? She believed it when her mother said shed changed it to protect her from the "nosy old biddies" who might try to discover her identity. It wasnt until decades later, when a genealogy test led Patti to her biological family (including an aunt with a shocking story) and the discovery of yet another birthday, that she really began to integrate what she thought she knew about her origins. Determined to know the truth, she finally petitioned a court to unseal records that had been locked up for almost sixty years--and began to put the pieces of her past together, bit by painstaking bit. Framed by a brief but poignant 1963 "Report of Investigation" based on a caseworkers one-day visit to Pattis childhood home, The Girl With Three Birthdays tells the story of an adoptee who always believed she was the answer to a couples seventeen-year journey to become parents, until a manila envelope from a rural county court arrived and caused her to question . . . everything"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Eddington, Patti. 600 10 $a Eddington, Patti $x Family. 650 0 $a Adopted children $x Family relationships. 650 0 $a Adopted children $z Michigan $v Biography. 650 0 $a Birthparents $x Identification. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240524010207.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F1DFD1D8199211EFAA2C9EE853ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search