Vladimir’s story | “There are times when I still struggle with depression, anxiety, and self-hatred. There are also times when I wonder if I have any capacity to love.”

Vladimir’s story | “There are times when I still struggle with depression, anxiety, and self-hatred. There are also times when I wonder if I have any capacity to love.”

by | Oct 3, 2019 | Stories | 11 comments

My father has been married five times. My mother was his second wife. According to my father, I am responsible for the destruction of his third and fourth marriages because “I had not accepted the death of my mother.” I only have one memory of my birth mother. For...
“To be loved by the two who created you and not from the strangers who bought you, is natural and beautiful. But I was denied this primal family structure to support a business and an unfamiliar infertile couple.”

“To be loved by the two who created you and not from the strangers who bought you, is natural and beautiful. But I was denied this primal family structure to support a business and an unfamiliar infertile couple.”

by | Jul 11, 2019 | Stories | 4 comments

(Originally published at Anonymous Us) From the eyes of a donored baby: I’m told to be thankful for my donors because they gave me life, but this life is not merely a kidney transplant, this life is 50% of who I am genetically and biologically: my heredity, the...