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Black-Market Baby: Patricia Knight Meyer on Wonderland, a Made-Up Birthday, and Learning Love Doesn’t Have to Mean Loss
In 1970, outside a Houston hospital, a couple pulled up to a curb and drove away with a newborn. No agency. No judge. No paperwork. That baby was Patricia Knight Meyer.
Julie and Patricia met in person at Adoption: The Making of Me in Austin this April, squealing and hugging like old friends after years of finding each other online. Patricia’s memoir, Wonderland: Memoir of a Black-Market Adoption, is Julie’s favorite adoptee memoir she has ever read.
In this conversation, they go underneath the story Patricia has told in so many places. They talk about growing up with a birthday nobody could…
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