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Two Trees is a nonfiction new release that will take you into a journey of healing.

Julie is adopted by the Beekmans in the late 1960’s and at first, brought up in the idyllic town of Grand Haven, Michigan. When her father dies, her mother, Marge decides to sell everything, leave town and provide Julie and her brothers with some “cultural awareness” which includes enrolling Julie in an all black school in the south.

EXCERPT:

I don’t remember the baby showers family and neighbors threw for Marge after the Beekmans adopted me, or that I refused to eat anything other than lima beans. I was nine months old when Warren and Marge brought me home. I listened to stories about how it all came to be. “We kept having boys and, after three, I just wanted a girl, so bad.” These were the moments when I loved listening to Marge, when she was just being my mom. She was endearing and it reminded me she meant to love me. “I just told the caseworker we wanted a girl with blue or green eyes. I mean, no one in our family has light eyes!” she explained dramatically. The speech was always the same; Marge telling me it took four years for the adoption agency to approve them, that I cost three-hundred and fifty dollars.

“When we went to visit with you for the first time, you were wearing a little pink dress. You held out your arms to Warren and said, Da Da.” She raised her arms out and made a face that looked helpless. “We knew then, we just had to have you.” She seemed to always refer to him as Warren and not my dad.

“Did Randy, Scot and Dan want a sister?” I asked like it was the first time I heard the story.

“Oh, of course.” Marge lit a cigarette, took a short drag, and then held it near her coffee mug. I hated when she just held her cigarettes and didn’t smoke them or take the time to tap the ashes into the ashtray, because I couldn’t focus on her.

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