[Flores]

I was also adopted in a state where the courts seal the records. I have always known my heritage, but often wondered if it was a lie and I was some other heritage. I recently hired a private investigator and found my birth parents. I was so scared to call them for fear of being rejected, that I had the private investigator do it for me. Much to my surprise she did want to see me and even remembered my name. After first talking to her, I was surprised how much we were alike in little ways. I have inherited a huge family and have 4 sisters and 2 brothers (half) and she and my birthfather are still very close. I was angry with her when I was younger, but it was because of things that had happened to me in my adoptive home. Is there something that has happened to you in your child hood with your adoptive parents? My birth mother was 15 years old when she gave me up and my birth father did not have a choice in the matter and neither did she. She was sent away by her parents to have me at a home for unwed mothers and it was only after my birth when the doctor told her she could not hold me that she realized that her mother had already planned to give me up. She even had a picture of me the first day I was born and she too felt guilty. I reasured her that I had a very good life and that if she had kept me I would not have the family I have now, or the life I have now. I would not be the same person. I am just thankful that we now have a second chance to be a family.
Jeanine Flores