From Me, To You, Beyond The Sea
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By Anonymous (she/her)
Adoptee, 22
From Chongqing;
It has been years since the last time we saw each other. No matter how much time passes, I still miss you.
Every year, I think about you, especially on the day I was found, which is for me, the longest night of the year.
To this day, I still wonder why you left me; indeed, there were complicated circumstances, but I can't help thinking if there was something that could have been different.
There is no use looking back at the past, but I find difficult to face the future without you.
Deep down, I know things can never be as they were before, as you must already have your own life, but I would like to see you once more, for a final farewell, before parting ways forever.
I write these words to you now, because I don't know if we will ever see each other again. Sometimes I fear you may have already left this world.
Others will never be able to truly comprehend our circumstances — adoptees, birth families — for them, the story has already been told, and ours is nothing but a page in history, a fading memory, but for us, is a tragedy that still affect us.
I wish these voices can be heard, and our story understood someday, so no more families or children will have to suffer this in the future.
To this day, as always, I can’t help but miss you.
From me, to you, beyond the sea.
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