Elaine DePrince, a former special education teacher, was the mother of eleven – two biological sons and nine adopted children. After losing her three youngest sons with hemophilia to AIDS transmitted by blood products, DePrince wrote Cry Bloody Murder: A Tale of Tainted Blood (Random House, 1997), an adult non-fiction/memoir written at the request of the U.S. Senate. Cry Bloody Murder had a profound effect on the passage of laws that made blood transfusions safer in our country. She now focuses on young adult memoirs and novels and has written several of them.
On the day of my birth, my mother had already decided that she wanted to give me away. She had made this decision even though she had not yet known the extent of the problems that would confront me. As it turned out, there were many, including the fact that I was not born a beautiful baby.Actually, ...
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