"Adoptee rights are human rights."
--Lori Carangelo, birthmother,
founder, Americans For Open Records (AmFOR)
Surviving Oz.
Why "Surviving Oz"?
I struggled for a long time to find a name for this blog that seemed to "fit". I decided upon the name "Surviving Oz" for my blog as a kind of tribute and juxtaposition to the movie Wizard of Oz. As an adoptee, I often felt like I was out of place and at odds between the life that I was abruptly placed into and the life that I could have had.
"Surviving Oz" reflects, for me, the struggle of being trapped between two worlds, my adoptive world and my birthfamily world. Maybe it seems silly, but it just feels right.
