Adoption

By Shawn Joseph Norton

They called it adoption. What it felt like was something else entirely.
I was four years old the day everything changed-too young to understand what was being taken from me but old enough to remember how it felt. One moment, I had a name, a home, and the warmth of a mother's voice. The next, I was in the back seat of a stranger's car, headed to a new life I did not choose.
When people hear the word 'adoption, ' they often think of rescue. A second chance. A happy ending.
That's not the story you're about to read.
This isn't a tale of hallmark healing or picture-perfect family life. It's a story of confusion, control, and survival. It is a story of two brothers-twins-who grew up in a house filled with silence, rules, and pain. It's about navigating the wreckage of abandonment while trying to hold onto hope.
But it's also about what comes after.
Because what defined us wasn't what we went through. It was what we chose to do with it. We worked. We fought. We failed. We prayed. And somehow, we found our way forward.
This book is not about assigning blame. It's about reclaiming voice.
It is about pulling back the curtain on what happens when the system fails to ask the right questions, when adults break promises, and when children are forced to grow up before they are ready.
It is about finding freedom-and faith-on the other side of trauma.
If you are reading this and have walked your road of hardship, I want you to know that you are not alone. And no matter how your story begins, it is never too late to rewrite the ending.
This is mine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQRHQZ28
• ISBN13: 9798263146559
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"