My Mom Was Raped. They Say I Should Have Been Aborted, But She Saved My Life

I had given up hope.My entire life I had never made any connections with anyone in my past biologically related to me. I had scant information about my birthmom but nothing actionable. I didn’t even know her first name.I was told she was white. My biological “father” was black. And I wasn’t planned. At all.I was conceived in rape yet adopted in love. Out of thirteen children in my family, I was the first of ten adopted. Each of us had narratives the world uses to justify violently disappearing t