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Florence Fisher, the spark plug who ignited the adoption-reform movement in 1971, died peacefully on Sunday, October 1. She was 95, and in failing health for several months.
While she has long been retired from active work in adoption, she founded the largest adoptee-rights organization, Adoptee Rights Liberty Movement, better known as ALMA, which at its heyday in the Eighties had 50 chapters in cities large and small across America and about 50,000 members. At the time, it was the largest national reunion registry, numbering about 340,000 searching adult adoptees, natural/first/birth mothers and fathers, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents and others hoping to find family members. It operated out of walk-up couple of rooms in a midtown Manhattan office building, staffed largely by volunteers and Florence, who welcomed all who climbed those stairs.
I was one of them.
By the time I met Florence, she was well on her way. In March of 1971, she placed a small want ad in The New York Times: " Adult who was adopted as a child desires contact with other adoptees to exchange views on adoptive situation and for mutual assistance in search for natural parents."
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AdoptionLand lost a giant on October 1, with the passing of Florence Fisher, founder of ALMA–the Adoptee Liberty Movement Association–and author of the groundbreaking adoptee activist and search memoir, The Search for Anna Fisher. I didn’t know Florence Fisher personally, and it’s been a long time since I read her book, so it’s a little difficult to write about her other than through the lens of admiration and gratitude. Florence Fisher suffered the adoptive parents from hell. She learned by accident when she was 7, that she was adopted. The documentation was then destroyed and she was warned to never speak of it again. For the next 30 years, Florence searched on and off like so many of us do. In 1969, however, she was in a traffic accident that changed everything. She recalled that just before impact she thought, “I’m going to die and I don’t know who I am.” The spark was lit Florence searched and located her birthparents, which is detailed in The Search for Anna Fisher. Her birthmother put her off, but she became very close to her birthfather, and took, his surname, which also was hers at birth. But Florence wanted more. She wanted more for us.
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