Hey Tricia:
Fancy meeting you here
Happy holidays!!!!
As you know, I was reunited with my foster family in September of this year and it has been the most heartwarming experience. I was with them from 3 days old until I was 2 1/2 years. They still had my baby/toddler pictures after FORTY years and still have the coffee table that I cut my teeth on. When I looked into that dear woman's eyes and touched her face, I knew I was HOME. I have no physical memory of her at all whatsoever.................but there was a deep deep emotional bond there. When she looked at me and touched my face, forty years of pain and emptiness were eased with a comforting peace. I will continue to search for my natural family, but nothing will ever replace the joy and peace of looking into the eyes of the woman who loved and cared for me during my first two and half years of life. That relationship formed the person I am today and for that I will always be greatful. Just to hear her say my name, the name that she gave me when I was placed with her, and for her to sing to me again.................nothing and I mean NOTHING, can come close to filling the void in my life as this has. I have been home after 40 years and I have been touched to the core of my soul by this remarkable woman who after 40 years still calls me her "baby". In her eyes, I always will be.
As I said, I will continue to search for the people I look like and share a bloodline with and pray that I may be able to establish some type of relationship there, but my foster family is my true first family and nothing will be able to change that.
Hope all is well with you Tricia..............am hoping to get down there next month again so maybe we can plan ahead this time.
Take care and good luck on getting those files opened............it's about time NC come out of the dark ages and allow us the rights we deserve.
Hugs,
Sue