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May 10, 2024 49 mins

Julie Ryan McGue who is an author, a domestic adoptee, and an identical twin. She writes extensively about finding out who you are, where you belong, and making sense of it.

Julie’s debut award winning memoir Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging (She Writes Press) came out in May 2021. It is the story of her five-year search for birth relatives. Julie has a weekly blog That Girl, This Life and a monthly column at The Beacher that focus on identity, family, and life’s quirky moments. Her follow up book, Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family & Kinship  (Muse Literary) is out now.

Connect with Julie Ryan McGue

https://www.juliemcgueauthor.com

Award winning author of Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging

NEW BOOK - Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship

FB @juliemcguewrites

IG @julieryanmcgue

twitter @juliermcgue




Music by Sonic Yogi: https://www.sonicyogi.com/

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