{"id":403,"date":"2023-10-28T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T20:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2023-10-28T20:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T20:52:38","slug":"genetic-mirroring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Mirroring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/genetic-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/genetic-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/genetic-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/genetic-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/genetic-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/genetic-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/genetic-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/genetic-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/genetic.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My fellow Ohio adoptee friend posted this on Facebook and it really got me thinking. I look a lot like my adoptive mother and I never really felt any of this when I was growing up. It did not really hit me until I saw the first picture of my biological mother. It felt like I was looking into a mirror when I saw that picture. It all hit me then. I look almost identical to a woman I will never meet and know. That loss hit me. I never thought there was something &#8220;wrong&#8221; with me but I did feel like I lost my place in the world for a awhile. That feeling faded after I connected with my biological Aunt Jill, my half sister, and my maternal cousins. I think it faded even more after I connected with my biological father, half-brothers, and paternal cousins. It still hurts to know that I&#8217;ll never really know her though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fellow Ohio adoptee friend posted this on Facebook and it really got me thinking. I look a lot like my adoptive mother and I never really felt any of this when I was growing up. It did not really hit me until I saw &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}