Ellen Cooper, MSW, RN, MSN

 

 

Imagine what it would be like if you couldn’t remember. You have forgotten your name. You can’t answer the most basic questions: Where are you from? Who are your parents? Do you have any brothers or sisters? So you ask; you even demand.  But in spite of your desperate pleas, no one will tell you. You simply have no right to know. And you shouldn’t even ask.

 

When faced with these very questions, Ellen absolutely had to know. It was never a matter of if; it was simply a matter of how and when. How and when would she finally find out who she really was?

 

Don’t Call Me Shirley: An Adoption Journey to Wholeness takes the reader on an emotional ride as Ellen searches for her family, experiences the gifts and consequences of her search, adopts a child of her own and, ultimately, discovers her true self.