Adoption, trauma, and the white moon over Balduina Square

“Sure, sometimes he acted crazy. Okay. But he loved me.”

When you’re too didactic about the idea that adoption is trauma, nobody listens. So our Adoptee Trauma featurette shows, and doesn’t tell our readers, through a narrative. It’s the tragedy of pain, loneliness, and mundane bullshit that comes with losing your identity and heritage.

This week we head to a small corner of the Roman Empire known as Balduina,…