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#ProChoice #Adoptee #ADHD #CPTSD
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My #Adoption file notes that my birth mother's home life was supportive - “happy relations in the home” - which directly contradicts the covering letter’s claim that she had little support."

They lied. It's right there. See it for yourself. Will you believe us now?

#Adoption is a life-long lie. 🥚
Dear Mr. Curry, Thank you for your inquiry to the Adoption Disclosure Services Program. Please find enclosed a copy of your adoption file. During the time of your adoption, it was evident through the documentation that your birth mother was young and struggling emotionally. She also had very little support. It is important to be mindful of these factors when reviewing your file information. We will now be closing your file. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at With thanks, Adoption Disclosure Services Program
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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I love Ferdinand #Ries 1784–1838, German composer, friend, pupil and secretary of #Beethoven. He composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto, nine piano concertos, three operas, and numerous other works. Here are 4 releases I'm playing a lot.

#classicalmusic 🎻 🎶 🎧 🎹
Album art features pianist, Gianluca Faragli, sitting facing forward holding music scores. Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) was born in Bonn and moved to Vienna in 1801, where his life became closely related to that of Ludwig van Beethoven (also a native of Bonn...). Ries studied piano with him, copied his scores and was the interpreter of several new works, notably the premiere of the Third Piano Concerto. Ries also wrote the first biography of Beethoven, an invaluable source of first-hand information. Ries' style inevitably is modeled on that of his master Beethoven, he was however strong enough to stand on his own. Ries also enjoyed a brilliant career as a virtuoso pianist. "Ries is rightly celebrated as one of the finest piano performers of the present day", a London reviewer declared. "His hand is powerful and his manner confident and often surprising. But it is his way of playing that makes him stand out from all the others, above all for his romantic wildness". This new recording presents original piano works by Ries: the substantial "Grande Sonata Fantasia "L'Infortunee", Op.26, a Fantasia on Schiller's poem Resignation, a Fantasia on Mozart's Nozze Di Figaro and an exciting Introduction and Rondo Zingaresco. Music of great pianistic invention and instrumental brilliance! Played by the young Italian pianist Gianluca Faragli on a modern instrument. Album art work of painting detail of a man looking directly forward framed by two women looking to the left. ‘The Grand Sextet is a splendidly heroic work, with its virtuoso pianism enthusiastically delivered here by Simon Crawford-Phillips. Its Andante has artless charm, being a set of variations on the Irish song ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ which Beethoven himself twice arranged, and it includes a short but mysterious cadenza which seems to come out of the blue, and go back into it. The Introduction and a Russian Dance for piano and cello (excellent Adrian Brendel) was aimed at the amateur market, but the intriguing G minor Sextet harks back to Mozart in its sunny conviviality. All these works should be in the mainstream chamber repertoire’ (BBC Music Magazine) Album art shows Trio Egmont facing forward. From left to right, pianist Viacheslav Shelepov, vilonist Luiza Labouriau and cellist Martin Knörzer. Ferdinand Ries occupies a remarkable place in the history of music. He was famously a friend and pupil of Beethoven and a virtuoso pianist. His extensive oeuvre opened up the musical aesthetics of Viennese Classicism to Romanticism. Completed in 1826, the Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 143 features two lively, fast movements surrounding a poetic Adagio, reminiscent of the era’s finest opera arias. Very different is the Grand Trio in F minor, WoO 86. It features four thematically interwoven movements that traverse emotions from despair to passion and eventual peace. Art work shows a portrait of the composer. The final volume in a new groundbreaking and much-praised complete symphony cycle of Ferdinand Ries’ (1784–1838) symphonies by the Tapiola Sinfonietta and conductor Janne Nisonen includes the composer’s two final statements in the symphony genre.
October 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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You know, there was a time when all socio-economic strata dressed in robes. Why did we take this away from ourselves?

#fashion #clothes #robes #art
A painting by Nikolai Ge called What is Truth? depicting Pontius Pilate debating with Jesus. Pontius Pilate is to the left, dressed in white standing in the light. To the right is Jesus stands in shadow wearing dark robes.
September 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Hi, #adoptee here. I was born in one, then #adopted to another, coastal Nova Scotian town. At birth I was Micheal Dean. My adopters changed it to Robert Glenn. What environmentally differences, abstract or physical, do you imagine between Mahone Bay and Mulgrave which may have required the change? 🥚
Aerial photo of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia town centre. Elevated perspective over Mulgrave, Nova Scotia
August 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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On this day in #adoption history, #adoptee David Berkowitz, also known as the Son of Sam, is reported to plead innocent and plans insanity defence. However, he refused the insanity defence and pleaded guilty. He remains in prison today. 🥚
News paper front page announcing the death of Elvis with picture. Also announced is trial start of the serial killer Son of Sam, adoptee David Berkowitz.
August 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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I've now begun Diane Wheaton's #adoption #memoir, Finding Loretta, and I envy her prose. I now hate my own writing again. Her #writing is as simply elegant as her mother's impeccable dress and style. Yet as with her mother's, Wheaton's style and prose contains far more fraught realities. 🥚 📚💙
Picture of Diane Wheaton's memoir, Finding Loretta, on which one sees Wheaton to the left as a child with her mother to her right holding her.
August 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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And here.
Epstein, Krauss and Pinker at table
July 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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New reading has arrived! Two more #adoptee #memoirs whose titles both communicate the same idea, that of being "forced" and "pulled" to refer to #adoption.

🥚 📚💙 #booksky
A picture of two books, both of which are adoption memoirs. The first is a black and white design showing a tree growing from an open book with roots extending from beneath it called Pulled by the Root by Heidi Marble and Alysa Zalma, MD. The other is called Crazy Bastard: A Memoir of Forced Adoption with a young boy smiling on the cover in what appears to be a school photo. The boy, presumably the author Abraham Maddison, wears a striped shirt.
July 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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"Friends who have adopted and other friends who have been adopted" is what you offer here as authority to a room of adoptees? Well then, to you I say, Welcome to Adoptee Bingo!! I see you've an early lead with more than a few squares bearing your name already! 🥚
A bingo card called Adoptee Bingo
July 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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My up-next on-order #adoption memoir is David B. Bohl's "Parallel Universe: The Story of Rebirth" which reveals the inner turmoil and broad spectrum of warring emotions - shame, anger, triumph, shyness, pride - he experienced growing up as a #relinquished boy. The eyes on the cover nails it.

🥚 📚💙
Cover of David B. Bohl's memoir featuring a close-up photo of the author as a child whose face is black and white on the left with colour on the right which reveals his red hair and blue eye. The text reads Parallel Universes: The Story of Rebirth. As an adoptee myself, I am transfixed by the black and white in relation to the colour as so apt to describe what it feels inside to be adopted.
July 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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If you've not read this yet, get it! This brings us closer to the raw catastrophe of #adoption in vulnerable honesty. Much about my own experience is not merely echoed, but she often reports exactly the same events, the same loss, the same self-sabotage repeating. Revealing synchronicity. 🥚 📚💙
Black and white book cover showing the author's head looking to the left with the sunlight resting on her mouth. The book is called You DOn't Look Adopted by Anne Heffron.
July 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I've received email from NS Crown Attorney Sharon Goodwin about my CSA case which is naught but lies. She refers to events that never happened and laws that don't exist in an attempt to intimidate me. This is clearly a cover up and she needs to be held accountable. #novascotia #lunenburg #canada 1/2
Image is a screenshot of an email I received from Nova Scotia Crown Attorney Sharon Goodwin. It includes the following text: Mr. Curry, I am following up in relation to your communication with RCMP several years ago. It is my information that you are currently residing in Germany. As a result, I must be cognizant of international protocols/treaties that must be followed. With the consent of Germany, I am permitted to advise you that Bruce Veinotte is now deceased, and, as a result, RCMP and Crown, are closing our files. I appreciate you may want to ask further questions or have further comments. As noted, Germany has given limited permission to allow us to let you know that Mr. Veinotte is now deceased, and our files are closing. Beyond that, I will not be permitted to respond without requesting additional permission, which can be an involved/lengthy process and may not be granted.
May 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.
Album cover for The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You album featuring a heavily tattooed face and shoulders in black and white over a red background.
April 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Hellnation's when the president
Asks for four more fucking years
Hellnation's when he gets it
By conning poor people and peers

Dead Kennedys
Album cover for The Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist album.
April 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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#Adoption fees vary based on race. Black #adoptees cost less than white or biracial babies. One adoption agency's fee structure showed that the cost to adopt a white or biracial baby could be upwards of $30,000, while the cost to adopt a Black baby was around $17,000.

Adoption's supply & demand. 🥚
Image of fee structure for Adopting babies by race.
March 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Elizabeth Joy Row in Nocturnes by John Field.

#MusicSky #nowplaying #piano 🎹 🎶 🎻
Recording artwork for Elizabeth Joy Roe's DECCA recording of John Field's Complete Nocturnes. Picture shows right profile of pianist in sleeveless dress at a piano
February 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Between the iron gates of fate
The seeds of time were sown
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known
Knowledge is a deadly friend
If no one sets the rules
The fate of all mankind, I see
Is in the hands of fools

King Crimson - Epitaph

#musicsky #music #kingcrimson #progrock 🎶🎸
Drawing of a distressed face with cavernous mouth, which is also the cover of King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King album Detail from cover of King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King album A planet-like face with hands and red spheres in the background resembling moons from the art work for King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King album The lyrics sheet to King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King album.
February 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Indeed!! I got this from students whose course with me finished today. I think they liked it!! 😉
Photograph of yellow and purple Milka chocolate box with a card of sunflowers and suns on a blue background reading Danke schön.
February 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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OMG!!!! Look at this!! I've been waiting 43 years for this opportunity. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm finally going to see Duran Duran. I was beat and bullied on the streets of Lunenburg in the early 80s for loving this band.

This is too much. I may not survive it.

#music #concerts #newwave #genx
Screenshot of concert announcement for Duran Duran in Dusseldorf. The band is featured to the right of the photo with Nick Rhodes in pink and Simon Le Bon in white, with Roger and John Taylor between in darker clothing.
January 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I am so very much enjoying this recording of piano works by Franz Xaver #Mozart, "the youngest of Mozart's children. His style was early #Romantic, with compositions that were highly regarded by his contemporaries #Schubert and #Schumann."

#classicalmusic #music #piano 🎻 🎶
Cover of Robert Markham's recording of Polonaises by Franz Xaver Mozart featuring a portrait of the composer.
December 20, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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Hey #adoptees and #readers, just got my copy of Bluesky adoptee and author Karen Pickell's book

An Adoptee Lexicon ( @karenpickell.bsky.social )

🥚 💙📚 #books #adoption
Photograph of a book being held in front of a computer screen. The book is titled An Adoptee Lexicon by Karen Pickell
December 19, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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#poetry #christmas #family #trauma 🥚 #cptsd #adoption
When some says "I hate Christmas," Do not attack them With laughter, derision Condescension or disbelief. Stop. Think. What a thing to - who would - Why would you say that? What's to hate? Pretty lights, shinny tinsel, Presents under glowing trees, Drumsticks and gravy, Rock candy and stuffed stockings. And family. With memories, like strangers, Obligingly mute.
December 18, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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20 books of Non-Fiction which have recreated your world.
One per day for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #nonfiction

12/20
Cover for Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature
December 12, 2024 at 5:30 AM
glenncurry.bsky.social
20 books of Non-Fiction which have recreated your world.
One per day for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #nonfiction

11/20
Cover for Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs and Steel
December 11, 2024 at 12:37 PM
glenncurry.bsky.social
20 books of Non-Fiction which have recreated your world.
One per day for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #nonfiction

10/20
Cover of Dava Sobel's book, Galileo's Daughter
December 10, 2024 at 7:13 AM