The Girl with Three Birthdays: An Adopted Daughter's Memoir of Tiaras, Tough Truths, and Tall Tales

Patti Eddington was adopted and always knew it, but never wanted to hurt her parents by expressing curiosity. At fifteen, she discovered her birthday wasn't her birthday and believed her mother changed it to protect her from nosy old biddies. Decades later, a genealogy test led her to her biological family and the discovery of another birthday. She petitioned a court to unseal records and began to put the pieces of her past together. The Girl With Three Birthdays is a story of an adoptee who questioned everything after receiving a manila envelope from a rural county court.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 07 May 2024
Publisher: She Writes Press

Patti Eddington was always aware of her adoption, but she never wanted to hurt her parents by expressing curiosity. She thought her mother's eccentric behavior was funny and didn't question it. When she discovered at fifteen that her birthday wasn't her actual birthday, she believed her mother when she said it was changed to protect her from nosy old biddies. It wasn't until decades later, when a genealogy test led Patti to her biological family, including an aunt with a shocking story, that she began to integrate what she thought she knew about her origins. Determined to know the truth, Patti petitioned a court to unseal records that had been locked up for almost sixty years and began to put the pieces of her past together, bit by bit. The Girl With Three Birthdays tells the story of an adoptee who always believed she was the answer to a couple's seventeen-year journey to become parents, until a manila envelope from a rural county court arrived and caused her to question everything.

Dimension: 215 x 139 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647426507