“Your Secret’s Safe with Me” by Carol Barbieri, an adoptee from NJ who is also a wonderful writer! Her op-ed was in the NY Times in 2005 and another one was published recently in The Record (Bergen Co., NJ)

This song is up on broadjam.com. It is free and anyone can listen. How to locate the song is by clicking on the search box and typing in Carol Barbieri for the artist names. When you click okay a list of songs will come up and you will see Your Secret’s Safe with Me. You can click on view song info and all the lyrics and the story behind the song can be viewed. Unfortunately, this is one song that is not available to be purchased or downloaded. However, you can listen to the song in it’s entirety via the website listed above.

Carol Barbieri search for her natural mother began as a medical search when her 14 year old son was diagnosed with Wolff Parkinson-White Syndrome. She never realize that her son never had any medical history because she didn’t have hers. The deeper she got into her search the more she wanted to know about her natural mother. Unfortunately, she committed suicide 10 years before Carol had the chance to find her. Carol’s natural mother’s legacy was her other children. Carol feels that the best thing that came out of her search was finding her other siblings, some living in the very same town. Carol’s son is fine now after three heart operations. The successful one came two years after Carol finished her search for her natural family and was in response to an acute episode that required immediate treatment.

Carol’s goal with Your Secret’s Safe with Me is to help society understand what it feels like to be adopted.