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Even when life throws the hardest curve balls, \u201cthe end\u201d can turn into the start of something beautiful. Tune in to listen to Rachel Beck\u2019s story on how life changed her path and how she thrived from it.\n\n\n\tBorn an orphan in a remote village in India,\xa0the author\xa0V. Lakshmi was later adopted and raised by a white Jewish family in America.\xa0The mysterious death of her biological mother foreshadows the sensitive feminine health issues V. would face in her life, including a twenty-year battle with endometriosis, infertility, failed adoption, and the decision to embrace hysterectomy as way of creating new life.\xa0V.'s cross-cultural adoption love story flies in the face of society\u2019s expectations for women to look a \u201ccertain way\u201d and slip comfortably into the American Dream.\n\n\n\tHer teaching memoir "Finding Your Way When Life Changes Your Plans"\xa0offers inspiring perspective to women, adoptive parents, and adoptees with its frank discussion of emotions surrounding all sides of adoption, encounters with racism, her path to a loss of motherhood, and her courageous rebirth\u2014illustrating how \u201cthe end\u201d of one road is the beginning of another\u2026and how the unforeseen is also beautiful and perhaps more fulfilling than we could have ever imagined!