http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/adopting-a-determined-approach-to-an-incredible-life-2419347.html
By Donal Lynch
Sunday November 14 2010
Midtown Manhattan. A group of six old friends gather in a quiet corner of The Perfect Pint Irish pub. With their shopping bags and warm embraces they could perhaps be tourists, but they are not.
The plastic paddy iconography on the pub’s walls is ironic for these people have a shared history: Americans now, they each carry Irish baggage. As children they were all farmed out from mother-and-baby homes to American adoptive parents, and as adults faced “the same long path of misinformation and stonewalling” as they tried to find out where they really came from. Now they meet regularly here in Manhattan. They are a kind of family to each other. “We share each other’s wall,” one of them tells me. Continue reading
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