A Sense of Something Lost: Learning to Face Life’s Challenges

Sue is a social services worker dealing with a troubled family in the 1980s. What she doesn’t realize at the time is how this family will stir up old emotions. In 1964, Sue finds herself pregnant and unmarried. Her boyfriend wants them to get married but since she is underage and her father is against it, she is sent away to have the baby and put it up for adoption. Sue is traumatized by the experience along with the death of her mother. She has no one to talk to about these events which causes her to push them further inside. When an Adoption Act goes into effect and birth records are opened, Sue receives an unexpected telephone call.

This is written as a memoir. Sue must come to terms with her feelings before she can forgive herself and lose the guilt, she has carried her entire life.