
Spitting Image
Ronald G Levi Jr
A Stranger-Than-Fiction True Story of Closure and Completion
The journey of finding biological family members can be a rollercoaster ride of peaks, valleys, unexpected twists and hairpin turns. The surprisingly rare phenomenon of adoption is as...
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United States
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A Stranger-Than-Fiction True Story of Closure and Completion The journey of finding biological family members can be a rollercoaster ride of peaks, valleys, unexpected twists and hairpin turns. The surprisingly rare phenomenon of adoption is as unique as every child, parent and family experiencing it. Until now, no memoir has so artfully described the difficulty abandoned children known as foundlings face when trying to find their genetic truth or the thrill they experience upon finally coming face to face with their Spitting Image. Adoptive parents, genetic families and everyone seeking unanswered truths, or hiding from them will be encouraged and entertained by this remarkable true story. One bright summer afternoon on weekend errands with his mother, 10-year-old Ronald's faint suspicions that he is adopted are confirmed by his mother's careful, well-practiced announcement of the truth. As a child whose appearance is close enough to that of his extended African-American adoptive family, he has always felt a part of them, but now things make a little more sense, and a 40-year odyssey of seeking his genetic truth is triggered. The formative years of spiritual training by his Baptist minister grandfather return to steady him as he is confronted by startling revelations of his birth-parents' past and his abandonment at a Detroit hospital shortly after birth. Spitting Image is a sweeping saga spanning hundreds of years that results in the creation of one unique human being who against all odds survives them to deliver a message of faith and great hope. Are you ready for the truth? Duration - 9h 29m. Author - Ronald G Levi Jr. Narrator - Ronald G Levi Jr. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2020 Ronald G Levi Jr ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:15
Dedication
Duration:00:00:46
Preface
Duration:00:00:56
Prologue
Duration:00:07:38
Chapter 1: The Announcement
Duration:00:21:33
Chapter 2: The Queen's Bush
Duration:00:14:09
Chapter 3: Gouldtown
Duration:00:05:40
Chapter 4: Paradise Lost
Duration:00:15:55
Chapter 5: Charlie Mae
Duration:00:08:22
Chapter 6: Toyland
Duration:00:08:05
Chapter 7: Ronald Gene
Duration:00:11:39
Chapter 8: Unbearable Lightness
Duration:00:12:32
Chapter 9: On Our Way
Duration:00:11:47
Chapter 10: Keeping House
Duration:00:27:30
Chapter 11: Immaculate Indiscretion
Duration:00:05:14
Chapter 12: Flipping the Switch
Duration:00:41:24
Chapter 13: Bad Boys
Duration:00:18:07
Chapter 14: Staying Alive
Duration:00:31:42
Chapter 15: Winter Wonderland
Duration:00:05:17
Chapter 16: LaSalle Boulevard
Duration:00:08:43
Chapter 17: Hypocrite Heaven
Duration:00:12:52
Chapter 18: Truth or Dare
Duration:00:14:46
Chapter 19: Count it All Joy
Duration:00:26:22
Chapter 20: Foundling Finders
Duration:00:11:05
Chapter 21: The Brantley Connection
Duration:00:22:54
Chapter 22: Cousins' Lunch
Duration:00:12:26
Chapter 23: Louisa Session
Duration:00:22:42
Chapter 24: Sarah Lowther
Duration:00:05:20
Chapter 25: Contraband
Duration:00:11:40
Chapter 26: King Me
Duration:00:16:20
Chapter 27: The Human Torch
Duration:00:12:19
Chapter 28: The Road Leads Back to You
Duration:00:21:08
Chapter 29: Beasley and Moody Brantleys
Duration:00:08:15
Chapter 30: The Big Ditch
Duration:00:11:15
Chapter 31: Confirmation
Duration:00:22:45
Chapter 32: Not the Daddy
Duration:00:10:55
Chapter 33: Answered
Duration:00:06:24
Chapter 34: Planet Janet
Duration:00:07:24
Chapter 35: Hunky Town
Duration:00:15:11
Chapter 36: Springwells
Duration:00:11:46
Chapter 37: That's All
Duration:00:19:58
Afterword
Duration:00:04:35
Acknowledgements
Duration:00:03:44
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:33