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Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Mary Ann!!
I can't say the desire to search was stronger on my birthday but I can tell you that my birthmother said my birthday was always one of the hardest days of the year for her. I was also a baby from the sixties era where everything was closed and the birthmothers were told to move on and in time they would forget. My birthmother never did. She wanted to search but felt like she had no right to ( she had been told often enough that she had no rights as she had relinguished) She also said she had no idea even where to begin if she had managed to get up the courage to do so. Such a different world back then....
What really pushed me into action was the birth of my first daughter. The day she was born I thought about my birthmother a great deal - very emotional as I held my baby girl wondering if she had done the same with me.
The week of my 40th birthday I flew into Canada to be reunited with my birthmother, birthfather and three full siblings. Dreams can come true........never give up hope!!
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~Life may not be the party we hoped for,but while we are here we might as well dance~
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