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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
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
Author
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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