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Book Review of I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children

I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children
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I was disappointed in this book. Most of the letters were identical ... asking for forgiveness and offering up reasons why they had to let their child go. Most considered abortion. Most had the father of the child just walk away and leave them ... and then they would write to the child they looked like their father.

I had gotten this book in hopes to be able to offer insight for my daughter who I adopted as a baby. Even though she is a teenager now, this is NOT a book I would want her to see.