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When your joy is built on someone else's loss

I love my adopted daughter more than anything but I can't stop thinking about her birth mother and feeling grateful and guilty at the same time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Some of life's greatest gifts emerge from circumstances that required another person's sacrifice or suffering.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief and gratitude — the paradox?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.