"American Idol" contestant Julia Gagnon auditioned with an Aretha Franklin song dedicated to her birth mom and blew the judges away, resulting in a rare platinum ticket.
I’m sure you’ve heard the flap about the new Minnesota state flag design. There are currently six designs for the flag and five designs for a seal that reached finalist
Experts recommend adopted children be told about their origins, no matter how difficult the circumstances, but doing so is tricky for adoptive parents.
Susan Kiyo Ito always knew she was adopted, but uncovering her birth family became a decadeslong process marked by moments of warm connection and icy divides — raw stories compiled into a memoir that’s alternately touching and heartbreaking. Opening on the fateful moment when Ito is about to meet her birth mother for the first time, “I Would Meet You Anywhere” transcends a title and becomes a refrain throughout the book. Ito's relationship with Yuki is fraught from the beginning, but her birth mother holds the key to the information she needs to find the other half of her DNA.
Before becoming a Broadway box office musical, My Fair Lady was a 1913 play and a 1938 film, Pygmalion, produced by George Bernard Shaw. "Eliza Doolittle" was the lead character. Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews were the most famous actresses cast in the several iterations of My Fair Lady. But for today's purposes, neither Shaw, Andrews, or Hepburn ever knew a more fair or genteel lady than my Birtie Preston.
Abby hears from a reader whose adoptive parents are struggling financially and wants to reach out to birth mom for money, while a wife who has re-united with husband finds stepson hostile, and a woman offers tips on how to really help caregivers.
Throughout Kirk Franklin‘s three-decade-long career, he’s created music that challenged the rules of gospel and told emotional stories that spoke to the masses. He embarked on a journey to tell his inspirational story through music earlier this year when he went on a quest to find his estranged birth father. The impact of their reunion… Continue reading Kirk Franklin Reunites With Biological Father After 53 Years, Finds Out They Lived Just Minutes From Each Other