My mom used to get miffed when people would say how wonderful she and dad were to adopt four children. “We weren’t wonderful,” she’d insist, no attempt to disguise the irritation in her voice. “We were selfish. We wanted a …
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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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Meeting the bio family: Chapter 4 — Finally a Sister
A sister obsession I knew from the moment I spotted them that they were sisters. Something about the way they interacted as they meandered around the old-fashioned country store. My “sister-radar” triggered into overdrive. I studied the combination of features …
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Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 2 — Little Bro
On a Tuesday about three weeks before the big trip to Hawaii to meet my birthfather, his wife, and my sister and her husband, a half-bro from that side of the family, from the opposite side of the country asked, …
The first year of the rest of my life
from July 26, 2017 I don’t believe in coincidences. Well, not unless we’re talking two cooks who bring the exact same strawberry chocolate trifle to the potluck dinner. Or best friends buying the same shirt on separate shopping excursions. Those …
A Visit to my Hometown
from June 27, 2017 The sun peeks through the trees as I glance about the quiet, old neighborhood in the town where I was born. From across the street, I snap pictures of the house where my mother lived when …
Mystery solved: The Next Steps . . .
While my parents had years to ponder my “foundling” beginnings, to conjure up scenarios about the who, the when, the why, I have had but a few months to imagine the details surrounding my being left on a doorstep. I have …
The Final Piece of the Adoption Puzzle
from March 10, 2017 Two weeks ago today it happened. A new, very close match popped up on my Ancestry.com DNA results. Admittedly obsessed with checking our results daily, somehow neither my daughter nor I had checked for new matches before 1:15, …
The adoption puzzle pieces fall into place
from November 29, 2016 For the first time in my life, I celebrated my November 14thbirthday with 99% assurance of my birthmother’s identity. Thanks to the DNA testing results from Ancestry.com paired with the expertise and diligence of a kind-hearted …
The mystery unfolds . . .
from November 3, 2016 Most days I don’t think about it at all. It’s just a part of who I am. An accepted part. From a very early age—as long as I can remember—I concluded that whoever gave birth to me couldn’t …
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