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The Box in the Closet: My Journey to Claim Who I Am
The Box in the Closet: My Journey to Claim Who I Am
The Box in the Closet: My Journey to Claim Who I Am
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This powerful and unusual story contrasts The Bicknells, a wealthy and influential family in Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, into which I was born out of wedlock, with a farm couple from near Brockville, Ontario who adopted me in 1935. At the age of sixteen I began to feel unsettled and lost. Eighteen years later I finally acted on that feeling and began the search for my lost parents.

Using documents I found in a box in the closet of my adoptive mother after her death, I have retrieved the moment when a sleek limousine emerged from the dust of a gravel road delivering me to my new parents.

The book follows that limousine back as I searched for my birth mother, taking me into mystery, intrigue and cover-up by the legal system but bringing me finally to a supper dance in the Crystal Ballroom of the historic King Edward Hotel in Toronto, where by chance, my birth parents were reunited.

The memoir is a story of loss and recovery but it is also a story of love, strength and redemption
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 23, 2011
ISBN9781426990021
The Box in the Closet: My Journey to Claim Who I Am
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Margaret Singleton

Educator, family historian, photographer and mother, Margaret Singleton has written several books including The History and Genealogy of the Bicknell Family in Canada. She also wrote a monthly feature article on antique dolls for the CanadiAntiquer. Her other interests include gardening, skiing, hiking and music. Margaret Singleton lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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