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🦋 Film series

Ellen has organized a film series at the local library, movies about adoption. The series kicks off on Sunday afternoon, with Barbara Lee's documentary Adopted; Ellen has an interview with Lee at Patch.com.

And another piece by Ellen, in The Motherhood: What this movie has to offer to people who are not in adoptive families.

posted morning of Friday, March 6th, 2009
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It was a good turn-out - about 25 people. The first person that spoke after the film was an adult adoptee who had adopted two children, now in their forties. She felt a lot of pain in seeing the film - it brought up a lot of memories of feeling different than her family. Others commented about their young children's processing of their grief of losing their 'first families.' Then, we watched a short film on "Raising Adopted Children," which also led to good, deep discussion. In three weeks, we'll be showing two more films.

posted evening of March 8th, 2009 by Ellen

Great -- I'll post the schedule closer to the date they show.

posted evening of March 8th, 2009 by Jeremy

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