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Roots & Branches

Mary Ellen Gambutti

I write prose and image-poems about belonging and becoming, vignettes of season, self, nostalgia, memory, and identity, a seasoned adoptee voice forward.

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    Stories, essays, vignettes, memoirs, ('I Must Have Wandered', 'Fortitude's Footing) by a seasoned adoptee and stroke survivor. Writing fiction as Islay Corwin, 'Through the Yew Hedge: A Tale of Identity Magic,' and Through the Iron Gate.'

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