“So, when are you going back?” I lost count of how many people asked when we planned a return visit to Maine, where our immediate family had marveled in the beauty of an east coast autumn while spending time with …
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Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 9.5 – Hovering in between
“Mrs. Steury, do you have a sister?” In typical kill-some-time-in-study-hall fashion, a high school student tossed me a random question. “No, I don’t,” came my fast reply. Breath. “Wait, wait. YES, I have a sister.” I now had the attention …
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Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 9 — “Maine in October”
“Come to Maine next fall,” urged my “new” brother Alan as his visit to Indiana wound down, in September of 2017. He had traveled a thousand plus miles to meet us, the half-sister and family DNA had linked to his …
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A Cemetery Field Trip
August 10 found my daughter, grandson, and myself heading north on a field trip of sorts. Armed with a plethora of supplies, our mission was to spiffy up the family gravestones on the twenty-eighth anniversary of my biological mother’s death. …
Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 7 — Aunt Donna and Cousin Honey
February 21, 2017, began like any other day, but by 1:30 p.m., the day lost its ordinary status when a message on our Ancestry.com account alerted us to a new, very close DNA match. With a few clicks, we determined …
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Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 5 – Making up for lost time
If you happen to know me at all, you’re already aware that I’m a planner who prefers to have a plan in place all the time. I’m generally not a fan of “play it by ear” anything. Especially not something …
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