Valorie: The Long Road to Family
S12, Ep. 2: Valorie
Valorie was born in New Jersey, she was relinquished at birth and placed with her adopted family at 2 months old. There were many difficulties and challenges growing up, it certainly was not a fairytale childhood. Some of the challenges included not bonding with her adopted mother, problems at school with other children and authority figures, drug and alcohol addiction in her teen years. Despite these difficulties she found sobriety at an early age, moved out at the age of 19 and started the journey of healing. Although she did not actively search in her younger years, her biological family was often on her mind, and she desired to search but did not know how to go about it. After feeling more urgency to search in later years she finally had an amazing break and found both sides of her biological family in one weekend by totally different avenues. She has been in reunion with both her birth mother and birth father along with many other members of his side of the family since 2024, which although scary at first, has been an incredible journey that is still unfolding. For Valorie the fairytale came later, the rainbow after the storm.
Season 12 Book: The Adoption Paradox by Jean Kelly Widner
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