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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#9999FF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="06a76ba3.gif"> <div> <B>A Song </B></div> <div> <B>by a</B></div> <div> <B>Birth Mother</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2e796960.gif" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Little Green</B></div> <div> <B>Born with the moon in Cancer</B></div> <div> <B>Choose her a name she will answer to</B></div> <div> <B>Call her green and the winters cannot fade her</B></div> <div> <B>Call her green for the children who have made her</B></div> <div> <B>Little, green, be a gypsy dancer.</B></div> <div> <B>He went to California</B></div> <div> <B>Hearing that every thing's warmer there</B></div> <div> <B>So you write him a letter, say, "Her eyes are blue."</B></div> <div> <B>He sends you a poem and she's lost to you</B></div> <div> <B>Little green, he's a non-conformer.</B></div> <div> <B>Just a little green</B></div> <div> <B>Like the color when the spring is born</B></div> <div> <B>There's be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow</B></div> <div> <B>Just a little green</B></div> <div> <B>Like the nights when the Northern Lights perform</B></div> <div> <B>There'll be icicles and birthday clothes</B></div> <div> <B>And sometimes there'll be sorrow.</B></div> <div> <B>Child with a child pretending</B></div> <div> <B>Weary of lies you are sending home</B></div> <div> <B>So you sign all the papers in the family name</B></div> <div> <B>You're sad and you're sorry, but you're not ashamed</B></div> <div> <B>Little green, have a happy ending.</B></div> <div> <B>Just a little green</B></div> <div> <B>Like the color when the spring is born</B></div> <div> <B>There's be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow</B></div> <div> <B>Just a little green</B></div> <div> <B>Like the nights when the Northern Lights perform</B></div> <div> <B>There'll be icicles and birthday clothes</B></div> <div> <B>And sometimes there'll be sorrow.</B></div> <div> <B>sung by Joni Mitchell © 1971</B></div> <div> <B>A-birth-mother</B></div> <div>   <script language="JavaScript">  </script>   </div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#99CCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="06b76bc1egdyqn.gif"> <div> <B>You Have to Know Yourself before you can Share that Self with Someone Else.</B></div> <div> <B>Cherish Yesterday. Dream Tomorrow. Live Today.</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=390 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#99CCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="06b76ba3.gif"> <div> <B>Hit the refresh Button often as you revisit this web site.</B></div> <div> <B>The pages of my story are listed below.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="5bfe9280.gif" border=0 width="489" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>And the Rest of My Family.</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="5fa91590.gif" border=0 width="145" height="89" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2e796960.gif" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.date-time.com/"> <img src="http://www.date-time.com/cgi-bin/date1.pl?rrutul_9876543" alt="Todays date and Time" border="0" width="167" height="70"></a></center></p>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5c23f0a0.gif" border=0 width="575" height="10" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>I needed to do my own web site. My birth daughter made one for the both of us. I wrote my story.  She did the web site. Now in this Dance of  the Fire of Reunion, that my B-daughter and I are in after 5/6 years. I found it important to find a place to express my own words, feelings and thoughts about our on again off again reunion. For my own peace of mind I am no longer in touch with with b-child. It is just the best for the both of us now.  With the help of </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Blackadder ITC" ><I><B>God and his many angels, </B></I></FONT><B>my heart has found a peace beyond human words. I also have parts of my life story and pictures of my family on this site. I pray that this site gives hope to all.</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><U> </U></B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><I><B><U>I hope you keep coming back as I will update and add new things as time </U></B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B><U>goes on. </U></B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5c33f0a0.gif" border=0 width="575" height="10" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="5c464aa0.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Giving birth does not make a woman a Mother... </B></div> <div> <B>placing ones child for adoption does not make her less of</B></div> <div> <B>Mother</B></div> <div> <B>Thanks, for this wonderful saying.</B></div> <div> <B>Sandi and Lezli</B></div> <div> <B>Birthmothers</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="11f5b7e0.gif" border=0 width="91" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>When you look in the miror you see your true self.</B></div> <bR> <div> T = To accept the reality of the loss</div> <div> E = Experience the pain of the loss</div> <div> A = Adjust to the new environment without the lost object</div> <div> R = Reinvest in the new reality</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="67ac89a0.gif" border=0 width="200" height="154" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="67ac89a0.gif" border=0 width="200" height="154" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5c33f0a0.gif" border=0 width="575" height="10" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2e796960.gif" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2e796960.gif" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><B><IMG SRC="2e796960.gif" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Today, the stigma of unwed motherhood may be gone but the perception that these mothers willingly gave away their babies is not. Mothers who lost their children to adoption are now coming forward in record numbers. Having walked out of the fog of enforced silence, we are angry and we will be heard. We are here to set the record straight</B></div> <div> <B>." Setting the Record Straight" </B></div> <div> <B>Karen Wilson Buterbaugh, copyright 2001, </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000066" FACE="AverysHand" ><A HREF="http://www.moxiemag.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.moxiemag.com "><U><B><U>http://www.moxiemag.com </U></B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <B>If you are a Birth-mother please take time to read the whole story)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2e796960.gif" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2e796960.gif" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2e796960.gif" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5cf3f0a0.gif" border=0 width="575" height="10" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Beginning"><U><B><IMG SRC="5d165620.jpg" border=0 width="101" height="98" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B><IMG SRC="5d363620.jpg" border=0 width="99" height="98" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><B>  </B><B><IMG SRC="5d564620.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="98" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Click on buttons above to move from page to page</B></div> <div> <B>or</B></div> <div> <B>|</B></div> <div> <B>|</B></div> <div> <B>Click any of the titles below to start:)</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Beginning"><U>The Beginning</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" My Young Years"><U>  My Young Years</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Foster Homes"><U>The Foster Homes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Loss of my Child"><U>The Loss of my Child</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Unwed Mothers Home"><U>Unwed Mothers Home</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Empty Soul"><U>Empty Soul</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Memorial to Gingers Parents"><U>Memorial to Ginger's Parents</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Send in the Clowns"><U>Send in the Clowns</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Come and set on my Knee"><U>Come and set on my Knee</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Brother and Myself"><U>My Brother and Myself</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Recovery"><U>My Recovery</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hello"><U>Hello</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Getting to Know You"><U>Getting to Know You</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Honeymoon"><U>Our Honeymoon</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Real Love Never Dies"><U>Real Love Never Dies</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Going to another Place"><U>Going to another Place</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Once Upon A Time"><U>Once Upon A Time</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Memorial to my Husbands Father"><U>A Memorial to my Husbands Father</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="An Ending a Beginning"><U>An Ending a Beginning</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ode to Joy "><U>"Ode to Joy" </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Familys Pictures "><U>My Family's  Pictures </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links, Search Engines"><U>Links, Search Engines</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Birthmothers in Faith "><U>Birthmothers in Faith </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Tribute to my Only Son"><U>A Tribute to my Only Son</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Sweet Aunt Jorja"><U>My Sweet Aunt Jorja</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Sweet Daughter Jacquie"><U>My Sweet Daughter Jacquie</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>My Guest book</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I invite each of you to sign my guest book</B></div> <div> <B>or send me an E-mail. </B></div> <div> <B>I would like to know what you are thinking,</B></div> <div> <B>how my web site affected you, </B></div> <div> <B>what you felt when you read MY STORY, </B></div> <div> <B>and any additional comments you may have. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Thank you, Ginger </B></div> <bR> <div>  <CENTER><P> <A href="http://pub47.bravenet.com/guestbook/show.asp?usernum=3952344062&cpv=1"> <IMG src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/viewbook.gif" border="0" width="100" height="35"></A> <A href="http://www.bravenet.com/"> <IMG src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/gbook.gif" border="0" width="100" height="35"></A> </CENTER>  </div> <div> <B> <CENTER><A href="http://counter47.bravenet.com/index.php?id=335923&cpv=1" target="_top"> <SCRIPT language="Javascript">  document.write('<IMG src="http://counter47.bravenet.com/counter.php?id=335923&ref='+escape(document.referrer)+'" border="0">'); 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