Kimberly Smythe: Letting Go Again

Kimberly Smythe's courageous story of finally meeting the daughter she gave up for adoption is not the storybook tale we often hear about in Hollywood.  Kimberly's new book Letting Go Again: A Birth Mother's Tale of Adoption, Reunion, Separation, and Growth honestly and compassionately shares the real, poignant story of Kimberly giving up her baby daughter for adoption and their troubled relationship when they are reunited almost two decades later.

Kimberly was born in Madrid, Spain. As a child, she lived the nomadic life of an Air Force brat. She has four grown children, three of whom call her Mom.  Kimberly chose to write about her first child, whom she gave up for adoption, so that others might understand what many women endure when circumstances force them to give up their child. Writing about being a birth mother, or as she prefers to call it, a natural mother, helped her in her quest for understanding. She hopes it will also help others understand what it is like to let go of a child, and then be reunited, only to have to let go again.

Kimberly's web site:  LettingGoAgain.com

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