One's Way Home

Dottie's life adventure begins before Dottie is even born. Based on the actual life of my mother, her adoption and eventual return to visit her real family during the 1920's and 30's, it is a fictional story that includes information, places and some speculation as to what happened at the time of her birth and why her lifes adventure began so young.

1918 was not a time when a young girl had a child without being married, and when this situation happened in Dottie's grandmother's household, it brought about events that would shape Dottie's life forever. Touching the lives of many people along the way, Dottie would be sent halfway across the country as a Train Child from New York City to the farmlands of Iowa.

Follow along on this twisting train ride as Dottie travels and grows into the young women who completes a circle that answers many of the questions her adoption left with her.