Roots & Branches
by Mary Ellen Gambuttiin 📚 Literature
Roots & Branches
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Prose and verse about Memory, Identity, Belonging, Loss, and Becoming, in a seasoned adoptee's voice. Welcome!
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About Mary Ellen Gambutti
Stories, essays, vignettes, memoirs, ('I Must Have Wandered', 'Fortitude's Footing) by a seasoned adoptee and stroke survivor. Writing fiction as Islay Corwin, 'Through the Yew Hedge: A Tale of Identity Magic,' and Through the Iron Gate.'
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