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Karen Pickell is the founding editor of Raised Voice Press (rasiedvoicepress.com), a micro press publishing creative nonfiction, and of Adoptee Reading (adopteereading.com), a catalog of books that focus on the adoptee experience. Karen holds a Master of Arts in Professional Writing from Kennesaw State University and was the 2014 editor of THE REACH OF SONG, the annual anthology of the Georgia Poetry Society. She previously served on the board of the Georgia Writers Association and as associate editor of the online literary journal Flycatcher. Karen has also been a contributor and editor at Lost Daughters, a collaborative blog written by adopted women. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she lived near Atlanta for over a decade before settling ...more

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	Dear Wonderful You, Letters to Adopted & Fostered Youth by Diane René Christian (Goodreads Author) (Co-Editor), Joanne Bennett (Contributor), Rosita González (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Daughters: Writing Adoption From a Place of Empowerment and Peace by Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Julie Stromberg (Editor), Karen Pickell (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology: Dismantling the Stereotype by Diane René Christian (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda H.L. Transue Woolston (Editor), Laura Dennis (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Adoptee Lexicon 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boots to Loafers, Finding Your New True North by John W. Phillips, Paul Falcone (Goodreads Author), Karen Pickell (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Catholic Culpability in Adoption

Let me begin by admitting that it’s taken me two months to write this.

In early September, I read The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice by Maria Laurino, an Italian American journalist whose cousin adopted a child from Italy in 1959. This child, now an adult, calls Laurino for travel tips as he’s on his way back to Italy where he hopes to find information about his birth moth

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