thanks.
Don't know where in Argentina they lived. I have been told many times to document all this for my children and grandchildren and to write a book about it. I joke and tell them that the book would probably be censored. My life to everyone seems amazing, but to me, it's my life, and my children have heard it to often. The newspaper where I live was not interested in the story when I located my mother, and they once again were not interested last year, (it was not unusual enough) but the town where my younger sister lives thought it was interesting enough to write almost half a page. She was a celebrity for weeks after that receiving many calls on the story.
Want something else to pop your eyes out? I mentioned my parents were not married to each other - because my father was already married and is the legitimate father of my new sister and brother (she born 12 months after I was - I am the oldest) and when these two legitimate children were ages 2-1/2 and 1, he hung his wife in their house, and these two children were sent to Argentina to live with their grandparents because their father went to jail for 30 years. When he was paroled he stayed in Italy, never going to Argentina, and the reason they returned was because my new youngest brother (who knew about them, but they never (also) knew about him) wrote to them in Argentina and pursuaded them to return to Italy. They have a great relationship among the 3 of them. Oh yeah, did I mention that "good old dad" had my english-speaking-half-brother with (yet another) woman that was not his wife?
Do you think my life is like a soap opera? Think I could win an oscar if they made a movie of it?????
I guess having an inquiring mind, and the help of someone over there to be able to answer questions helps a lot. This new brother, Pino, has been such a help because I have been able to convey to him things I remember and questions I have and even though I was only 9, he has verified that everything I remember is true, and he has been able to answer quite a few questions for me.
I figure God had it planned for all this, to find all of my relatives, that they are all still alive, and to be able to communicate with them. ... and out of the whole US where the 4 children adopted in the US, what is the odds that the 4 of us are one hour away, just 60 miles from each other.
Thanks for reading this. And if you have an inquiring mind - good for you, keep asking questions, because eventually you will get the answers.
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