Come and join Delores Teller, Marilyn Mendenhall Waugh and Kathleen Nielson for coffee this morning and listen to women who have suffered the heartache of relinquishment as they share their intimate stories of loss and longing, search and joy, guilt and forgiveness as well as acceptance and 
endurance.  Spoken with candor and humor, across different generations and adoption practices, each will tell their own journey to recovery and, often, activism for more humane family solutions. A question and answer period will follow with hope that attendees can better understand the inner thoughts and common experiences of many birth/first mothers, past and present.