Missing Pieces
About the Author\ Sherry Cochran was born in Ellensburg, Washington, where she lived in her first foster home. She was adopted at age five and moved to Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound area. Her adoption was dissolved at age twelve and she was returned to foster care until she graduated from high school. She was reunited with her birth family at age twenty-eight. Her birth mother and all ten siblings now reside in Washington State. Sherry lives with her husband, daughter, and son the...
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Missing Pieces is the compelling story of a woman's search for her birth family. It is a searing autobiography about a child who survives neglect, abandonment, physical and sexual abuse, a failed adoption, the foster care system, and hereditary progressive hearing loss in her successful quest for reunification with her birth family. The book is written in concurrent story lines: through the eyes of a child during a traumatic childhood and with the drive of an adult experiencing the frustrations of a challenging search for her lost family. The reader is compellingly drawn into the horrific struggles of the young girl and the prolonged anxieties of the searching adult who at last finds her missing identity.
Some people focus almost obsessively on the memories of their past because that is their way of affirming their life experiences. It was my way of retaining a connection to my birth family and give meaning to my existence. To forget the abuse of my past would mean erasing years of my life and I chose not to do that. I took strength from triumphing over adversity and take pride in not wallowing in victim-hood.
