Articles by Amy Shankland

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect As my adoption and reunion story continues, I’ve changed some names, places, and dates. It felt nearly impossible to get through the rest of my…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect As my adoption and reunion story continues, I’ve changed some names, places, and dates. Imagine my excitement two weeks later to come home for lunch…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect As I continued the search for my biological parents, my husband John cautioned and advised me to be ready for anything. “I just don’t want…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Now I had a few potential names for my birth mother and dozens for my birth father. But I still didn’t feel like my yearbook…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect With my non-identifying info regarding my adoption in hand, I had some solid things to go on for a more advanced search for my biological…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Mary didn’t bug me often after that conversation about what I should do regarding the search for my biological parents because she knew about my…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect After finding out the non-identifying info about my biological parents, life went on. By the time the fall of 2009 rolled around, I had been…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Thanks to Laura with St. Joseph County, I learned that both of my biological parents were 20 years old and in good physical health when…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Thanks to a fantastic babysitting co-op through our church, John and I were able to go out on a date with each other twice a…