Surrender

<h4>Her young life changed in an instant. Now she shares her story with the child she gave away.</h4><p><br></p><p>Adopted at birth Marylee's parents told her she was a chosen child. She tried her hardest to make them proud but her parents' divorce sent her into the comforting arms of a handsome Catholic boy.</p><p><br></p><p>Convinced that he was her Romeo and she a modern-day Juliet she surrendered to passion. Unfortunately it was 1961. Pregnant girls were sent away and their babies given up for adoption.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Nature vs. nurture:</strong> Which plays a greater role in who we become? The family we were raised in or the parents we never knew?</p><p>In telling her adult son the story of his birth can the narrator find compassion for her own wounded inner child?</p><p><br></p><p>If you like truthful accounts laced with the passion of youth and the wisdom of age read Marylee MacDonald's<strong> funny and poignant</strong> memoir about how we grow up grow old and learn to accept ourselves.</p>