Friday, February 24, 2006
Somebody's Someone
After 25 years, a woman who was caught up in the foster care system as a child, grows up, writes an engrossing memoir *Somebody's Someone*, and, through the book's publicity, is finally reunited with the woman she's searched for so long, the woman who was not allowed to adopt her. As adults, they decide to go ahead with the adoption.
Hear their story in their own strong, feminine voices on NPR.
After the first page, I could not put Regina Louise's book down, so I took it with me on stage for my keynote, held it up, and told the audience of bankers that Regina offers a lesson of resilience and transcendence for us all. Upon finishing my talk, I gave the book to the incoming president of the association, who walked on stage to thank me. One month later he wrote me to say that, so far, 23 attendees had contacted him, raving about *Somebody's Someone*, and so will you.
Hear her at (http://www.reginalouise.com/somebodyssomeone.htm>http://www.reginalouise.com/somebodyssomeone.htm.)
Hear their story in their own strong, feminine voices on NPR.
After the first page, I could not put Regina Louise's book down, so I took it with me on stage for my keynote, held it up, and told the audience of bankers that Regina offers a lesson of resilience and transcendence for us all. Upon finishing my talk, I gave the book to the incoming president of the association, who walked on stage to thank me. One month later he wrote me to say that, so far, 23 attendees had contacted him, raving about *Somebody's Someone*, and so will you.
Hear her at (http://www.reginalouise.com/somebodyssomeone.htm>http://www.reginalouise.com/somebodyssomeone.htm.)
