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Unbreak my heart, meeting my children as strangers, Susan Morrow

eng

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non fiction

Unbreak my heart

1054216736

Susan Morrow

meeting my children as strangers

When Susan Morrow read "thanks for the memories" scrawled in crayon on her mirror, she thought that was the hardest day of her life. Her husband had left her and taken the children with him to Mexico where she could not retrieve them. When Susan reunited with them 12 years later, she thought that her nightmare was over and they would all live happily ever-after. She was wrong on both counts. As hard as that terrible day was, searching for twelve years was brutal. The search drained Susan's resources, money and hope. Upon reuniting with her children for the first time after so many years, Susan was shocked. They were strangers. While she had thought of them constantly over the years, they thought she was dead. Susan's children were not sure they wanted a relationship with her. Susan's gripping personal story takes readers beyond the story of the search and reunion to the painstaking work and love required to rebuild a family after a long separation. More than 200,000 children are kidnapped by a family member every year. Many of them will reunite with their searching parent in the future. This book is for searching parents, the children and all reunified families who are trying to grow new roots as a family. Sharing what she has learned, Susan offers parents and other family members hope and help in their journeys. --, Page 4 of cover

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