A Memoir by Patti Hawn
Good Girls Don’t
A Memoir by Patti Hawn
Good Girls Don’t
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Patti’s story starts in her childhood home in Takoma Park, Maryland, where as a teenager she becomes pregnant by her high school boyfriend. In the typical 1950’s “solution,” she is sent away to a relative’s home to have the baby in secret. Patti gives up her infant son on the day he is born.
This is where the typical adoption story begins…and ends.
Forty years later, after multiple marriages, two children and a career, she is suddenly compelled to find the baby she gave up. What she found was far from what she expected. In GOOD GIRLS DON’T Patti finds resolve and acceptance in a life that at first glance appears full of imperfection. It’s an engrossing tale of family, denial, secrets and redemption, a universal story common to all humans. In an ironic twist of fate, it is the most imperfect and challenging of all Patti’s relationships that bring a perfect healing into focus.
“I said goodbye to you many years ago. You were small and helpless and so was I. It didn’t seem a very good match, so I did what seemed like a good idea at the time: I gave you away.”
GOOD GIRLS DON’T is the debut effort of Los Angeles film publicist Patti Hawn. Her book fits perfectly into the literary and entertainment “reality” trend of real people telling their real life stories. Patti is the older sister of the legendary film actress Goldie Hawn. At the exact time when Goldie’s star was rising, Patti’s star was shooting out of control. Her book is a deeply personal first-hand account of what it was like to be trapped in an unwanted pregnancy at the close of an era where home economics took precedence over sex education. It tells the story of the last generation of young women to experience life on the eve of the sexual revolution of the sixties and the passing of legislation legalizing abortion. It is a unique time in history, foreign to an entire generation of women, that resulted in an incredible number of reunions between birth parents and their children --- 20, 30 and 40 years after.
“When I made the decision to write the letter to the son I said good-bye to 40 years ago,” says Patti “little did I know that I would begin the most profound journey of my life. Although I made a promise to never interfere I broke my word and opened a door which led me into a place where finally I’m forced to confront my truth. Thus began a journey that started on the day I gave my baby away and led me through a lifetime of choices unknowingly borne out of this early experience. It seems I’ve spent much of my life in search of answers – without ever really knowing the questions.”
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