Page 4 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2024 Melrose Arts & Crafts Society delivers blankets M elrose Arts & Crafts Society delivered 15 fl eece tied blankets to MelroseWakefi eld Hospital for hospice patients to have while they are there and to take home. Our Society met with some members of the Melrose Fish and Game Club who wanted to help and learn how to make the blankets. We want to thank them for their help. Monday, October 28, is our next meeting at First Baptist Church — Upham Street side entrance at 8:30-1:00. All are welcome, so if you love arts and crafts, please stop in! Pictured from left to right: Helen Chisolm, Gina Stuffl e, Hospice Coordinator Vincenzo Sullivan and Melrose Arts & Crafts Society President Linda Camberlain. (Courtesy photo) RON’S OIL Call For PRICE MELROSE, MA 02176 NEW CUSTOMER’S WELCOME ACCEPTING VISA, MASTERCARD & DISCOVER (781) 397-1930 OR (781) 662-8884 100 GALLON MINIMUM November is National Adoption Month: Poignant Memoir Paints Vivid Picture of Woman’s Search for Biological Roots W ESTPORT, Conn. — It’s stunning to realize that only 10 states make birth records available to American-born adoptees and their biological parents—Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Rhode Island. For adult adoptees born in the 20th century era of closed adoptions, this presents a painful obstacle to discovering their origins and ending the agonizing hunger to know their own identity. Janet Sherlund poignantly captures this journey in her elegant and heart-wrenching memoir, Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms That Once Held Me (Forefront Books; May 7, 2024). Sherlund paints a vivid portrait of the detachment and longing of an adopted child and the lifelong quest to fi nd her biological mother. It’s an unfl inching examination of the grief and trauma caused by this primal separation and the dogged determination it takes to face the forces of opposition—both internal and external—to fi nally achieve answers. ADOPTION | SEE Page 5
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