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The Adoptee Reading Room
The Reading Room is an educational library for people who learn through adoptee memoirs, adoptee scholarship, and critical frameworks. It’s not therapy advice: think “start here,” glossaries, reading, blogs, short think pieces, pathways, and resource lists that center adoptee perspectives.
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