Hey Awesome Adoptees! Let's gather 'round the virtual campfire (marshmallows not included, sadly, blame the internet). Today, we're tackling a feeling that might bubble up every now and then, like that weird uncle at Thanksgiving who insists on telling the same joke every year: the feeling of being a missing piece.

"Do you have any family history of...?" For most, it's a matter of recalling grandparents, aunts, uncles, a quick mental inventory of inherited predispositions. For me, an adoptee, it's a vast, echoing silence. It's the ghost in my genes, the medical narrative I can't access, the missing chapter in my own health story.