Thoughts flit in and out of my mind like floating white dandelion seed-heads. What if the mole is cancerous?

It’s as though the blinkers have been removed and I’m seeing clearly for the first time in a long while. Real-life romance is not the sugar-coated version you see in films and books and musicals.

Six contemporary, young, strong women taking control of their lives and making decisions. Snapshots - what's your story?

I’ve made a New Year’s resolution - to find my birth mother. It’s not as though I felt I lacked anything growing up, but I need answers. Why did my birth mother give me up? I might be thirty years old, but the rejection still hurts; wasn’t I good enough?