YOU BELONG HERE: An Adoptees Love Story

By Willie Moore Jr.

Have you ever wondered what the perfect adoption story looked like?

Adopted by two ex-sharecroppers Willie Moore Jr. shares seven stories of his adoption experience that will make you laugh, cry and erase any negative stigma about adoption. This remarkable adoption story inspires adoptees and foster children to love and respect their new f

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilflo Global Media
• Release date: Dec 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9780578619583

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PREFACE

Hey Family,

In our lives we have so many question marks on how or why we came into existence, especially when it comes to the words spoken over our lives and circumstances we were born into. Questions like: If God is really real, why would he allow this to happen to me? Why couldn’t things be different? Why didn’t she love me? Why didn’t he love me? Why did they choose a substance over me? Why did they go to jail? Why did they leave? WHY, WHY, WHY?

If you have been fostered, or adopted, the questions ring in your ears like a police siren. Of course you may be able to silence the questions for a while but the moment someone asks you, Is that your grandmomma or granddaddy while you are with your forever family or, That’s not your mom, is it? because she’s black and you’re white or vice versa, you’re reminded that your life is a lot more unique than everyone else’s. Maybe the questions started in your head when you arrived in someone else’s home to be fostered after abruptly being placed away from your normal environment or maybe the questions started when you found out the Mother and Father you thought were your biological parents were somehow not really your Mom and Dad. However your questions came, I want you to know, YOU BELONG HERE!

Just like you, I was in foster care and later adopted. Being an adoptee, I can recall always feeling like I had to prove myself to everyone. I wanted to show them that I belonged in the position that I was in. I always had a desire to be the best at everything I took part in. Whether it was sports, music, or school, anything I did, I was determined to do with excellence. Truthfully that’s a good trait to have but not at the expense of depression, exhaustion, silent tears and feeling defeated but smiling through it all. My forever father Willie Sr. used to call me the greatest pretender. It was if he could see through my smile into my heart only to reveal my true insecurities. The most amazing part about my forever Dad and Mom is that they never crushed my fragile heart. They helped me heal my wounds and the medicine they used was LOVE. I’m willing to bet that there is someone helping you heal but you can’t receive the love they are giving wholeheartedly because it’s not coming from the person you want to receive it from. It may be from a foster parent, a forever parent, a counselor, a teacher, a husband, or a wife; someone is going the extra mile for you but you won’t receive the love. THAT WILL CHANGE AFTER THIS BOOK. I was just like you.

You know, I wish someone would have miraculously showed me the future when I was a little boy so I would have been able to see and prepare for the overwhelming blessings that were coming. Today I have four amazing biological children and I hope to foster in the near future. I am a successful public figure, a best-selling author, financially free and fulfilled by all senses of the word.

However after a long talk with my closest friends I realized some things about myself. I’ve never enjoyed my success. It seems as if I am always rushing to the next venture. Why is that? Do I feel like I belong? Hmmmm. That forced me to go back in time and research my motives at an early age. I had to unpack some truth and move forward with a healed heart. I began to take counseling and in the midst of my healing I thought about you. Yes, you the adoptee or foster child and the parents of foster children. There is always a better perspective and my goal is to inspire a mother and father who has fostered or adopted that everything will turn out fine or an adoptee or foster child who is in a tough situation to see that brighter days are on the way.

I don’t want anyone to make the mistakes I made but I do want every child to experience the types of successes I have and more. You may not know it yet but you are in for the best life ever. Through this book I plan to give you stories from my journey in hopes that it will help you make better decisions with your parents, teachers, wife, husband, employers or others. In my case, it was employees. I understand that you are talented, smart and you have a good judgement of character so I vow to not be long-winded in these chapters and I promise to KEEP IT 100 (Keep it real). Some of the stories will make you laugh and others may make you cry; I hope you see yourself in these stories.

The fact that you picked up this book shows me that you are willing to become better and for that I want you to know that I am grateful.

Love you, Family

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CHOSEN

For I know the plans that I have for you.

In 1978 I was born to a teenage mother who had already had a son one year prior to my arrival. Because she was not married, she was ridiculed and talked about for having a baby out of Wedlock. This led to her decision to place me up for adoption. Three months after my birth, two ex-sharecroppers emerged to adopt a child. The story goes, the moment that these two potential parents walked into the foster home