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The Third Man

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The Third Man

By: Mani Sheriar
Narrated by: Mani Sheriar
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What would happen if your baby’s birth father stood for everything you despised and feared? In this profound and heartrending story, an adoptive mother is forced to discover the answer.

After years of infertility, Mani and her husband, David, decided to adopt. When they matched with a teen mother, they were overjoyed, until the likely birth father contested. Frank was a violent white supremacist who had no intention of relinquishing parental rights. With tenuous hope and consuming dread, Mani now had to go head-to-head with a hateful stranger. And she was totally unprepared for where it would lead.

Mani Sheriar’s The Third Man is part of This Can’t Be Happening, a collection of four true stories about making the best of a worst-case scenario curated by Kevin Allison, creator of the hit true storytelling podcast RISK! Outrageous, alarming, triumphant, and sometimes embarrassing, these fearless confessionals can be read, or listened to, in one what-on-earth-would-I-do? sitting.

©2018 Mani Sheriar (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Parenting & Families Relationships Adoption Infertility Heartfelt
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Mani Sheriar wants a second child but fails to fall pregnant again. Her son encourages her to adopt and Mari and her husband go through the ordeal of applying and being selected to adopt the unborn son of a teen mother with addiction problems. The only snag is that one of the potential fathers of the child might put a claim in for custody and, although her lawyer assures her otherwise, her worst fears are realised when a white-supremacist drug dealer puts in a claim. I was on the edge of my seat throughout this short true-life tale waiting to see how this would end, so I was caught off-guard by the positive message in this story, it was brilliant! Mani Sheriar narrates the audiobook herself and is excellent! (currently free on the Audible Plus catalogue)

Heart-warming and surprising!

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