Who Am I Really?
Haley loved her adopted mom and dad to pieces. However, they were not the people that made her, and she always felt a need to find out who her biological parents were. She had tried for years to find information about her birth parents. Her adoptive parents only knew the name of her mother and where she used to live.
The adoption agency to which Haley had been surrendered as an infant refused to provide her any more details about her birth parents, and her thousands of hours spent scouring the Internet with her birth mother’s name had proved fruitless. Haley had never felt more discouraged about her chances of locating her biological parents, yet she knew they were the only ones in the world who could answer her questions about herself.
She wanted to look at them and see if she could find a resemblance. She wanted to know the reasons that she was put up for adoption and she wanted to thank them for giving her the opportunity to have the life that she had led with her beloved adoptive parents.
Haley had reached the point where she would have been happy just to find out that her birth parents were still alive, but she was beginning to think she’d be denied even that much when she decided to make one final effort with the adoption agency. She was surprised to find out that the employee to whom she usually spoke had been replaced by a new woman.
She wondered if this woman would give her the information she needed. As she asked, the woman began to shake her head before Haley even finished her question. Apologetically, the woman told Haley that she couldn’t give out any information.
And then Ashley heard what she had been waiting for years to hear. The woman told her of a website which could help adoptees find their birth parents, and gave Ashley its URL. Rushing home, a hopeful and excited Ashley went online to the URL the adoption agency lady had provided, and found herself on a reverse records site. In the indicated space, she entered the name of her birth mother.
Back at home, Haley went to a reverse records website and saw that there was a space for a name. She thought for a moment about the woman at the adoption agency and she typed in her biological mother’s name.
Haley gathered her courage and made the call. When a woman picked up the phone, Haley said, “Hello, my name is Haley and I was given up for adoption twenty-eight years ago. My birth mother’s name is the same as yours, and I wondered if you could possibly be my biological mom.”
Ashley heard only silence for seconds, but the woman didn’t hang up, and then she quietly began sobbing. Ashley knew her struggle had at last borne fruit, and that she actually was speaking with the woman who had brought her into the world. Today Ashley not only knows and loves her birth mother, but has the joy of an extended family of half-brothers and sisters.
Haley couldn’t believe that she had finally found her birth mother. Since then, she has gotten to know both her birth mother and half siblings. Her father had passed away some time before that, but Haley was thankful to know the rest of her family. She could never have found the information without that website.
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