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		<title>AND THE UNICORN JUMPED OVER THE MOON</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Corrigan DArcy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AND THE UNICORN JUMPED OVER THE MOON, 2023: 20"X 24" acrylics, glitter, hot glue, foam, ribbons, balloons &#038; found objects on canvas and cardboard]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>July 12, 2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TRIGGER WARNING: DV simulation, not a simulation but a four minute peek into my marriage. Yikes!]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>SHARP WAVES, 2020: 5″ x 14″black mica seashells, acrylic paint, wood frame and electric on canvas.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Corrigan DArcy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SHARP WAVES, 2020: black mica seashells, acrylic paint and electric on canvas.  &#124;  Representative of the difficulties and weight of grief and loss. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THERE WAS A CANCER</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Corrigan DArcy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[THERE WAS A CANCER. 2023: Acrylic, found objects, hot glue, washi tape, glitter on canvas His mental health was indeed a cancer.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Happy Birthday!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Corrigan DArcy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[A Birthmothers Life]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[32 years and 300 days AFTER I signed the piece of paper that would ultimately seal his original birth certificates from our eyes forever seemed like a good time to freshen up around here get moving on this damn legislation!THIRTEEN WORDS are all that must be removed from current Massachusetts law in order for my first born to have his civil rights restored. I let them take his rights away,...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Birth Mothers; Have you Lived a Horror Story?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Birth Mother Experiences in Adoption Relinquishment; Journalist Inquiry I have been speaking at length this past week with a very well established journalist how is looking into the experiences of mothers relinquishing their newborns to adoption through voluntary domestic placement. Based on the conversations, I am confident that this request for specific stories and experiences is not only very legitimate, but will result in a very informative piece on ethics....]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Department of State’s International Adoption Symposium</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Corrigan DArcy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["You know how we can improve the lives of birth parents in International Adoptions?
Stop taking their children across the ocean to the United States.
Let me make this statement very clear: On behalf of birth parents around the world, adoption hurts us. Relinquishment hurts us. Being separated from our children hurts us."]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Another Milestone ~ 8 years and 8 months in the making!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finding Christopher Finding Myself]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Susie Another milestone in my reunion with my firstborn happened last weekend. (It only took 8 years and 8 months!) For the first time ever, all of my children AND (almost) all of my grandchildren were together! It was the first time Christopher&#8217;s two children met their aunt, uncles, and cousins. It was an amazing weekend, to say the least. I am so thankful that all three of my...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reunion Flashback</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reunion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote this some time ago as a submission to some contest some place. I have been holding on to it until today. It was ten years ago today that this happened. Last Hours of Cold She couldn&#8217;t find a freaking parking space to save her life. After all the meticulous planning and her careful timeline, she was going to be late because she couldn&#8217;t find any  visitor or public...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Between the Extremes; Complexity of a Birth Mother</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Corrigan DArcy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yes, it is complex being a birth mother. This one act involves a duality of polar opposites. How can I be a victim of an industry, yet I made a choice? How can I be selfless and selfish at the same time? How I can I be a survivor, yet completely broken? How can I do the unthinkable, and then manage to carry on? How could I have been so weak as to lose my child, to not fight for him, and then so strong as to breath into another day? ]]></description>
		
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