Who Am I Really?
Although Haley loved her adoptive parents as much as any child ever loved his or her natural parents, she still had an empty place inside which would only be filled when she knew who had been responsible for bringing her into the world. Haley had spent much of her adult life trying to trace her birth parents, but aided only by the names of her biological mother and the city in which she was born, she had very little hope of success.
Ashley was unable to get any further information from the adoption agency which had placed her with her adoptive parents. She spent countless hours doing Internet searches on her mother’s name, and kept running into dead ends. She was beginning to think she’d never track down her biological parents, who were the only people who could answer all her questions.
Haley had always wanted to know if she looked more like her biological mom or dad. She wanted to be able to understand why they felt forced to give her up. And more than anything else, she wanted them to know that she had been placed with in a loving and nurturing home, and that she was healthy, happy, and thankful beyond measure that she had been given the chance for a life full of love.
Ashley struggled on with her search so that she could finally meet and talk to her birth parents, or simply to know if they were still living and their locations. But she was almost ready to admit that she’d run out of ideas when she made one last trip to the adoption agency and talked with a new employee.
Once again Ashley thought she was in for a disappointment, as the new woman interrupted before she had completed her question about getting more information on her birth parents. The woman repeated what Ashley already knew, that the adoption agency was not at liberty to reveal anything about them.
Then, to Haley’s surprise, the woman leaned closer to Haley and said, “I was adopted too. I can’t give you any information about your birth parents, but I can give you the URL to a website that helped me out a lot.” Then, the woman wrote a website down on a sheet of paper and handed it to Haley.
And all at once, Haley’s search was over! The website immediately provided her birth mother’s address and phone number, and did in seconds what Haley had been unable to do in years. Haley could now write to her birth mother, or even phone her and hear her voice for the very first time.
After taking time to gather her thoughts, Ashley nervously dialed the telephone number. She heard a woman’s voice at the other end, and hesitantly said, “Hello, I’m Ashley and I’m and adoptee searching for my birth parents. Your name is the same as my birth mom’s and I wondered if you surrendered your baby girl for adoption twenty-eight years ago.”
Haley waited several seconds for the woman to respond, and then heard her sobbing softly. Haley realized that she had finally found her biological mom, and from that moment the two of them have been catching up on all the time they lost. Haley has also been able to welcome her half-brother and tow half-sisters into her life!
Although Ashley has still not been able to meet her biological father, they speak on the phone from time to time. And Ashley will never forget the adoption agency employee who gave her the URL of that website.
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