This book is about my personal adoption experience. Given up for adoption as an infant, I sought to learn the nature of my origin. After years of searching I found and contacted my biological mother, only to be abruptly turned away. Through fate, persistence and deception, I finally connected with her as a "friend of the family", not her son. Over the years, this connection grew and, after the death of a loved one, our true relationship was revealed to her. This book documents that experience, its significant impact on both of our lives, and the effect that it can have on not just those that are given up for adoption, but on those that make the powerful and painful decision to let their children go.