“I couldn’t leave the kids alone with him. He couldn’t drive. No pick-ups, no drop-offs. Resentment built between us. We were told our children had a 50% chance of getting it too. All we could do was wait, and watch, and worry. It was too much to comprehend.”
‘One random afternoon, I got a text from my husband. It’s bad. I thought, ‘Will I be a widow?’ I should’ve been at home breastfeeding. Instead, I was meeting with geneticists.’
‘This is weird, but I feel like I know you.’ My heart dropped. ‘Were you adopted?’ Yes. ‘How old are you?’ 40. ‘I gave birth to a child 40 years ago.’: Woman gives son up for adoption, runs into him 40 years later at supermarket
“The mutual dreams. The age. The feeling. It all seemed to align by some inexplicable magic. He didn’t speak. He only sobbed, my tears flowing with him. I was never a believer in miracles. But this? This felt like a miracle of the utmost kind. The universe brought us together. It’ll take an army to tear us apart.”
‘I awoke from the anesthesia. ‘Is it closed?’ My family nodded. I feared passing it to my kids.’: Sister surrogate births twins in wake of sibling’s infertility battle, ‘I couldn’t be more proud of her!’
“I questioned whether I’d ever have boyfriends, if someone would ever love me enough to marry me. I was weird looking. I was different. I kept telling myself I didn’t need kids. Then, I met a man and my life did a 180. I wanted a family and kids so badly.”
‘I was told I was ‘switched at birth.’ I lost who I was, I was stripped of belonging. She kept saying, ‘I’m so sorry,’ like someone had died.’: Woman finds herself while searching for biological parents
“’I promise to help you find your father when you turn at 18.’ When the time came, she refused to help. She let me go on this wild goose chase when she knew the truth all along. I decided to take a DNA test.”
‘I wanted to find my biological parents. My mom told me ‘no’. It was a closed adoption. Soon after, a mail order DNA test caught my eye.’ Woman ‘stuck between 2 worlds’ embarks on search for family names
“On top of being adopted and feeling different, I WAS different. With my dark hair, green eyes, and short stature, I stood out. I remember looking at pictures, my family laughing about how all their noses matched. I couldn’t participate in the conversation. I felt like an outsider. My husband and I decided it was time. I sent it off.”
‘My Facebook dinged and woke me. I figured it was a random message from a friend. It wasn’t. ‘Could it be?!’ My heart sank.’ Adopted woman discovers biological family in message she nearly ‘ignored’
“The day became more life-changing by the minute. I soon learned who my biological father was. For 36 years, I wondered why I looked the way I did, where my personality traits came from. Yet, I was not searching for a dad. I already had one. An AMAZING one. I didn’t want to disrupt any lives.”
‘We fell into each other’s arms for our first hug ever in 31 years. There are no words. It was perfect.’: Woman meets birth parents after finding them on Facebook, finally ‘feels whole’ again
“I landed on the Facebook page of a man with big, blue, almond-shaped eyes eerily like my own. Could it be him?! Oh my God! My mind was racing a million miles a minute when my husband came home from work. He saw me on the couch, unshowered, shaking, with the world’s biggest smile plastered on my face. I couldn’t hold it in. ‘Babe! I think I found him!’ He didn’t even know I existed. I kept pinching myself to make sure this was real.”
‘Hello. My name is Cara, and I think you are my brother.’ Family’s emotional meeting with brother born to Vietnam War vet they never knew existed
“He said he often wondered and worried if his father had been among the tens of thousands killed in combat.”
‘One thing I am 100% certain of though. I would care about them’: Adopted brothers’ desperate search for twin sisters also given up for adoption
“I’m not looking for a mother, I just want some answers. But the reason for this story isn’t Ed and I. The real reason for this story is the twins.”
‘She looked like Cinderella, but lives like Sleeping Beauty. We feel guilty for fussing at her, but we had no clue.’: 16-year-old sleeps ‘more than 20 hours a day’ in comas due to severe epilepsy
“People have said she is ‘too pretty’ to be as sick as she is. They simply don’t believe us. This has even happened with doctors because she is dressed nicely and, if she’s well enough for me to prop her up, then I’ll put her makeup on. Her brain misfires more than 80% of her life. She’s been hospitalized hundreds of times, has stopped breathing, her heart has stopped and she’s had to be resuscitated.”
