I LIVE in southern Ireland and am writing a book on adoption.

I was adopted myself but I appreciate that adoption is a varied and highly individual experience.

I invite readers to write to me with information, stories and opinions if they have first-hand experience of adoption, formal or otherwise.

All replies will be treated with complete confidentiality.

MARIE CANTWELL, Ballinamona, Whiting Bay, Ardmore, County Waterford, Ireland.

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