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Dale M. Kushner

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Dale M. Kushner grew up in New Jersey and moved to the Midwest to study at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant in the Literary Arts and has been honored by a fellowship to the Wurlitzer Foundation, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Fetzer Institute as a participant of their first Writers’ Conference on Compassion and Forgiveness. Her work has been widely published in literary journals including IMAGE, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, Witness, Fifth Wednesday and elsewhere. Her most recent poetry collection More Alive Than Lions Roaring was a finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award at Utah State Press and The Prairie Schooner Book Competition. In 2010 she was nominated for a Pushcart ...more

The Orphan Within: Understanding Why We Feel We Don’t Belong

Orphan (1895) by Albert Gebhard (1869-1937) Source: Finnish National Gallery / Public Domain for Orphan Within blog post

 

Once upon a time, when I was a child in bed at night, I would fantasize that the grownups asleep in the other bedroom were not my real parents. I imagined that I had been an orphan abandoned at birth, and they had adopted me. This was a story I created to express feeling different from the rest of my family and alone in the world.

The reality of orphanhood is a tragic fate, one we see prolifer

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“It soothed me to imagine a cavernous space inside the earth where missing or lost valuables—the cracked teapots, broken dolls, torn photos, bronzed baby shoes, dead turtles—made their habitation, a place where all our losses came to rest. I was not sure the dead lived among these things, but I was perfectly willing to suppose that they did or that they at least stopped in, as if visiting a ghostly pawnshop, to retrieve what had once, through”
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