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Janine Vance, author of two books inspired by true events, seven screenplays involving international adoption and currently working on a 'how to' book, has finally released her second limited edition book, The Search for Mother Missing.

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"The Search for Mother Missing is a great example of the complexity international adoptees learn to live through, with all its many obstacles and challenges, sorting through meager truths, half-truths and lies. Janine has done a wonderful job in presenting so many facets of the adoptee culture and allowing the reader a certain closeness so we may vicariously experience her journey through her eyes." –-Thomas Park Clement“"The book is a must read for all who are in some way connected to adoption and especially for those of us who have the desire to search for our own blood relatives." -–Korean Adoptee“"An emotionally charged, powerful eye-opener about the international adoption industry! Add it to your multi-cultural library." -Frederick Su, author of An American Sin Praise from Janine's first book: "You will be captivated and will discover the true meaning behind 'family'. The difficulties from Janine are candid and from the heart. Hope and healing permeate this work from the very beginning. In fact, the hope and healing as a result of the trials and tribulations of emotional abuse, unfairness, adoption, and disability have led the Vance family to ever increasing spiritual progress. Their progress is recorded here with love and joy for the future. In the end, their healing transforms this estranged family into a united whole." –-LuAnne Harney"I got really addicted to reading Janine's book. It was fascinating and worth my time. It opened up a totally different world for me that I would have never known and made me think about a lot of things." –-K. Norton"I was enthralled from the opening pages. Janine's story is a deeply revealing look at the innermost thoughts of a younger Janine as her life was beset by tragedy and she was forced to question her most firmly held beliefs. It was both entertaining and enlightening in a way I would have never imagined. I could not help but feel her pain, her love and the profound ironies she encountered." –-K. Creso

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1972

Twin baby girls were told that they had been found in a box on a street corner in Seoul, South Korea. The twins were sent to an all-American couple in the United States and life appeared to be a fairytale. The twins grew to love this family as their very own and, like most adopted people, considered their adopted parents to be their “real” family. The twins respected and honored their parents, believing with all their hearts that nothing could destroy this love and everything was good.

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When the twins were seniors in high school at age 17, their adoptive mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. After seven years of fighting the disease, the twins’ mother passed away from liver and bone cancer. At this time in 1997, the twins’ father moved in with Janine and her family and this is when their spiritual transformation and her writing journey began. The twins' mother, after her death, appeared to Allen and daughters through a clairvoyant and an emotional healing among the three of them occurred. Allen had read the Bible cover-to-cover 32 times prior to his wife’s spiritual appearance and was amazed and empowered to learn that all answers are within. Now he is proud to have a Doctorate Degree in Metaphysical Science. Today Allen's favorite saying is "Don't just do something, sit there!"
The twins, at age 32, attend the 50 year anniversary Gathering of International Adoption in Seoul, South Korea. Four hundred Korean Adoptees sent to fifteen nations traveled to their motherland to socialize, contemplate and celebrate their adoptions. The twins use this opportunity to try to locate their Korean family and were shocked to learn that they are not the only Korean-born adoptees--and that their adoption is not rare at all! Adoption agencies had sent 200,000 Korean babies to families in the west and still do--—fifty years after the Korean War had ended. What had started out as a charity to save a few Amerasians from racism in South Korea in the 1950s had exploded to a worldwide industry, motivated by money and meeting the demands of unsuspecting Western couples. Agencies workers have now manipulated the laws of one hundred nations in an effort to access and move children from their homelands, all under the guise of love and salvation. This was devastating news to Allen and daughters.
Today, approaching 40, the twins have the full support of their adoptive father, now age 81. Janine has written two books inspired by their life story, seven screenplays involving international adoption, and is currently working on a self-help book. Janine'’s father has aided this endeavor by editing her projects. He, too, respects the natural family and is a proponent for keeping families together. Shocked by how the mainstream refuses to acknowledge or tolerate all sides of the adoption story— due to being influenced by agency advertising, —the twins have started two Facebook Groups in an effort to allow people to share without being judged, therefore spread awareness. Personal stories (that are not insync with agency advertising campaigns) are needlessly labeled as “"angry”" or "sick". –Allen and daughters know that separated families have every right to be concerned —and truthful stories (that do not fit into the agency's fairytale image) should not be accused of being “negative”. It is time for adopted people and their natural families to find each other, unite, and speak about their losses, thus real healing can begin. The time is now. Let's begin today....
The 12 year-old twins’ beloved father— an engineer, church elder and teacher, boy scout and youth group leader— started to hang glide against the wishes of his wife, the twins’ adoptive mother. On his seventh high altitude flight from off of Dog Mountain, the hang glider folded in mid-air. First hitting a tree, Allen fell 100 feet to the earth, and had to be rescued by helicopter, dislocating his shoulder and elbow but worst of all, he sustained a traumatic head-injury that would affect him and the family for the rest of their lives. Allen became disabled permanently and was forced to retire from the engineering job he loved. Because the twins'’ mother was devastated and unable to cope with the loss of her husband's former capabilities, the twins took over their father’'s care and recovery every day before and after school. They helped their father with physical, occupational, speech therapy, performed all care-giving tasks, and they also learned how to uplift his emotional state and spirits when he was down and mourning. Today, at 81 and a spiritual man, Allen maintains the injury was the best thing that ever happened to him.

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A visionary, and never satisfied with the writing of her adoption story, Janine turned to writing screenplays. She was amazed to discover how the characters seemed jump right out of her mind and onto the pages as if they had wanted to speak for years yet had been forced to hold back. Since the Vance twins were said to be found on a street corner in 1972, the idea of looking for the twin’s' Korean family seemed unrealistic and impossible. The twins did not know at the time that adoption from South Korea had exploded into a money making industry, affecting hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Once in Seoul, the twins discovered that the street did not exist and, just like them, other adopted people had been given the run-around and half-truths by the adoption agencies.This discouraging discovery became the catalyst that compelled Janine forward into a writing journey, involving the topic of international adoption. As an adopted person, a daughter, a wife, a sister, a niece, an aunt and a mother to two teenage daughters, Janine believes individual experiences must be revealed, rise to the surface and be acknowledged for benefit of families worldwide.Janine refuses to take credit for the writing of the screenplays as she believes they were written not by her, but by a higher sacred energy life force that came through her.
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Jenette is a mother of two children (ages 20 and 12) and just recently married in 2011. Her life’s purpose is to help people heal so they can follow their passion. When Jenette is near a person who needs healing, she feels an energy sensation within and around her hands. When she places her hands onto the person they are often surprised that they can feel heat emanating from them. Since 1997, Jenette has enjoyed studying Eastern philosophies and complementary healing techniques, listening to music, and reading spiritual books. Triggered by a sensation of universal energy within her hands, Jenette became a Reiki Master in 2008 (Jenette remembers playfully throwing energy balls with her son for fun when he was younger), she became a clinical and certified hypnotherapist and will be taking the Neurolinguistic classes soon.Since 1995, Jenette has worked in the health care field as a Certified and Licensed Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA/L). Within that field she has been employed as a COTA/L in a variety of Skilled Nursing Homes and Hospitals. She has also worked as a Home Health therapist, Rehabilitation Director, Activity Director, and has owned, licensed and operated an Adult Family Home. She has also dabbled in real estate.
Allen is a retired engineer from Boeing Airplane Company. In 1984 he fell 100 from the sky because his hang glider folded in mid-air. Allen sustained a head-injury which (as he now describes) changed him from climbing the 'corporate' ladder to discovering his sacred place on the 'spiritual' wheel. Prior to his transformation, Allen had been a Presbyterian elder, Sunday School teacher, choir director, youth group and cub scout leader. Dejected by his injury, Allen turned to reading the Bible cover to cover 32 times in search for answers to some of life’s hard questions, describing his attempt to recover from the 1984 injury to like being a child and growing up again. Allen turned to Metaphysics in 1997 and then earned a Doctorate Degree in Metaphysical Science in 2002. At one time, his motto had been “"Don’'t just sit there, do something." Now open to Eastern Philosophy, his current motto is “"Don'’t just do something, sit there.”" Just like his twin daughters, Allen is a big proponent of meditation, eastern healing philosophy and techniques and preventative medicine.
Janine calls herself a reluctant writer. She is first a Metaphysical Minister and Counselor, Thought Field Therapist, Certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Practitioner and, since 1997, has studied religions and philosophies from around the world. In 1998, she discovered that she could hear her inner voice (or intuition) and she has used this ability to stay focused and to pay attention to her guidance system while writing. She also enjoys interpreting dreams.Janine is passionate about world religions, philosophy, psychology, complementary Eastern healing techniques, Traditional Chinese Medicine and helping people to share their stories. Her hobbies include meditation, reading, writing, watching movies, and researching international adoption. If you have a story to share and would like help on the writing a book, memoir or screenplay, join the twins network for the latest news and updates or contact Janine directly janinewrites_ymail.comJanine has served as her adoptive father'’s primary caregiver for the past 27 years.
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Facebook Facebook The sky sanctuary, a Facebook Group created by the twins, serves as a gentle nurturing place where all people can come together and be involved with the beauty and value of diverse spiritual practices. All people are welcome to join however, it is inspired by Allen Vance and dedicated to the missing natural families. The twins and their adoptive father believe that everyone should have a choice when it comes to developing one’s spirituality. All people should be given the birthrights to make a conscious decision about which religion they want to follow based on truth and not on speculations from an outsider’s perspective, fears or half truths. Yes, all people should have freedom of religion. And we should also have freedom FROM religion.Because the twins are intuitive and believe in the healing power of the human spirit, they also discovered that separated natural families needed a spiritual place where they can recover from family and cultural losses and forced religious beliefs.
This Facebook Group serves as a worldwide library where all people of varying ethnicities and backgrounds who have been affected by adoption can come together and make a collective statement about how adoption has affected them. Anyone and everyone is invited to post personal experiences, newspaper and magazine articles, youtube videos, and birthright advocacy fundraising events onto the wall. This group was formed to be transparent so that unsuspecting public and potential adoptive parents can make conscious decisions about adoption before adopting. ALL sides of adoption is welcome to share here—not just the visible and public top side that is usually presented by adoption agencies in an effort to market a product and services.
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CELEBRATING 2012!

featured artist

Giovanni Andolina

"Twin Pack"

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Pianist and Composer

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The Search for Mother Missing:

a peek inside international adoption

Giovanni Andolina was born in Italy and educated at the Conservatory di Musica Statale “F. Cilea”. He describes arranging the PEACE album as a continuous journey of creative discovery.

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*You are listening to "Searching for the Self" from Giovanni's PEACE CD