Kim: Adoption and the Power of Story

Kim: Adoption and the Power of Story

Update: 2025-10-07
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Award-winning author and journalist Kim Orendor was adopted at three months old. Her parents told her about the day she joined their family, along with other stories at bedtime. Kim continues to share her own story with others and has authored an adoption-themed young adult novel. She lives in Northern California.


Kim's YA fiction story "To Whom It May Concern" with an adoption theme, won the NextGen INDIE gold medal.


Season 11: Adoptee Memoirs - books in order:


Practically Still a Virgin by Monica Hall


You Can't Get Rid of Me by Jesse Scott and Keri Ault


Unspoken by Liz Harvie


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RESOURCES for Adoptees:


Adoptees Connect


Adoptee Mentoring Society


Gregory Luce and Adoptee Rights Law

Fireside Adoptees Facebook Group

Dr. Liz Debetta: Migrating Toward Wholeness Movement

Moses Farrow - Trauma therapist and advocate

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1-800-273-8255 OR Dial or Text 988.


Kristal Parke Because She Is Adopted


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Kim: Adoption and the Power of Story

Kim: Adoption and the Power of Story

Louise Browne & Sarah Reinhardt