Separated Lives
A son’s friend asks Lynn Assimacopoulos for help
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Separated Lives
A son’s friend asks Lynn Assimacopoulos for help in searching for his birth parents. While agreeing she cannot promise success, but will attempt to use her genealogy skills to aid in this endeavor. Finding phone directories, writing letters, using the internet and visiting libraries and the National Archives are some of the paths she takes, however without much success. Then a surprising incident suddenly occurs which may lead to more than she ever imagined.
Lynn Ann Assimacopoulos is a retired Registered Nurse, (RN, BSN) who has written for professional Nursing Journals in the past. However, she has been writing poetry and short stories since she was eight years old and also enjoys reading, genealogy and archeology. She continues to enjoy writing non-fiction and studying the use of words.
🧐What readers say about the book
From the exhilarating emotional journey of Ryan discovering his birthparents to the heartfelt and sometimes difficult conversations about the choices they made in the past, every moment in the story felt authentic and deeply moving. The subtle yet profound connection between Ryan’s treasured nature artifacts and his birthmother’s shared passion for the natural world added an extra layer of meaning to their relationship. It’s these delicate, impactful moments woven into the narrative that leave a lasting impression and make the book truly unforgettable.
Ellie
About The Author
Lynn Assimacopoulos
Lynn Assimacopoulos didn’t realize it at the time, but being laid off from her job as a hospital staff nurse would be one of the best things that could’ve happened to her. The year was 1990 and Lynn was looking at job ads when she noticed one for a nurse writer at the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society’s Long Term Care National Campus. This temporary, six-week position intrigued her.
“I had never really heard much about the organization and had absolutely no experience in long-term care, yet I could not get the words ‘nurse writer’ out of my head,” says Lynn. “Nor could I even believe there was actually a job about the two things I loved the most – nursing and writing.”
Lynn began writing at the age of 5 and had wanted to be a journalist but she ended up going to nursing school instead and had worked at the Red Cross, a home health care agency and local hospital ICUs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Still, she decided to apply at the Society. And after being hired, she was elated. “Since the very first day, I loved every minute of it,” Lynn says. “I continually prayed that they would need me to stay on permanently.”
Her prayer was answered at the end of those six weeks. The temporary job became a part-time job and later, a full-time position as nurse writer/project consultant. As the sole nurse writer on staff, Lynn aided in the writing of departmental policy and procedure manuals with the Society’s nursing, dietary, social work, activities, medical records and therapy consultants. She also taught a class on cultural awareness for some of the Society’s workshops.
“I couldn’t wait to go to work every day,” she says.