This is an interesting thread!
My first mother relinquished me at birth... growing up I never really thought about being adopted, I had always known though.
So... sometime in the spring of 1995 I wrote a song for her and started actively searching for her. I used some poetic license in my song with the lyric "So you turned 40 this year and I can't find you anywhere" even though I wasn't exactly sure how old she was.
13 years later I found her death record: January 5, 1995. She was 40 when she died of pneumonia, one of the things my non ID info said she was succeptible to at age 16! She was a single Mom and my brother was 15 at the time.
Looking back now, I have to think that there was a connection. As she was dying somehow she reached out to me, I think she was hoping that I would be able to find my brother and take care of him. I did find him this February... better late than never I guess
