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Originally Posted By Rebecca

The way that i found my birthmom is really kinda strange and everyone thinks that it is a miracle. i was in a teachers classroom one day after school last year talking to her because we were pretty good friends. i was talking to her about how i wanted to find my birthmom so bad. well, there was another girl who at the time was in 7th grade helping the teacher cover books. she overheard us talking. apparently the girl had looked up to me since she was in 6th grade and i had talked to her a couple times but didnt know her very well. well, that nite, she went home and told her mom that she had overheard that i was adopted. her mom was like "isnt she a junior?" lara (the girl) told her yeh and she was just kinda like oh ok. well, that nite laras mom called the teacher and asked her if my birthday was 10-10-82. the teacher said yes and everything fell together. the girl that had overheard the conversation was my sister and i got to meet my birthmom that night. then a few nights later i spent the night with them and that is when i met my birthdad. this all took place on may 22, 2000. then on july 20, 2000 my birthmom died of a blood clot. on the tenth of that month she had a hysterectomy done and her body formed a bloodclot and it blocked the main artery from her heart to her lungs. she quit breathing and went too long without air so she went braindead. me and my sister are taking it really hard so if you dont mind please keep us in your prayers. i found out that i have 2 sisters through my mom and one through my dad. it was all really weird but it was cool that i got to meet her 2 months before she died because i was only 17 so legally i wasnt allowed to meet her until i was 18 and if that woulda been how it was i never woulda met her. so anyway, just thought i would share that with you guys have a great day

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Originally Posted By Trudi

Hi Rebecca! I found my birthmom about a year ago, but your letter really touched me because my very first meeting with her was May 20, 2000. Out dates are so very close! I often think about if one of us would have died before we met because my birthfather is dead and I didn't have that chance to meet him. I believe that things have still turned out OK for us since you had two months with her (better than none at all) and I have my birthmom to tell me about him. You are definitely in my prayers and I'd love to hear more about this. Respond please

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Originally Posted By Wendy

You were blessed to have known her those two months before she died....it was truely a miracle.....
God Bless...aqnd good luck knowing your siblings and bf
Wendy

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I don't know you of course, but I read your story and I was touched. I believe it was a miracle that you met your Mother and it sounds like you are very blessed. Good luck and I will say a prayer for you.

From, Columbus, Ohio

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Originally Posted By Elizabeth

I'm so sorry to hear about the tragic death of your birthmother. It is real wonderful that you did get to meet her. I gave up my first born son in 1990 and hope to have him in my life again. I miss him and never stop thinking about him. Even though I had another son 4 years ago and love him dearly, I still carry so much love for my first born. God bless and take care!

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Originally Posted By Jody Moreen

Thanks for sharing your heartwarming but also sad reunion story. I found my birth parents deceased when I found my birth sisters 6 years ago- It is hard to find birth family and lose them. My favorite birth sister that I got along with best died 3 years after I found her of cancer at the age of 51- that was very hard for we did not have much time together as I had hoped. But now I am rejoicing that I got to know her.
Are you a Christian person? My faith life and God has give me much strength and hope and a gratitude for meeting my sisters and seeing pictures of my birth parents. I am the editor of a new free outreach newsletter Adoption Blessings- a 24 page quarterly sharing testimonies by adult adoptees/birthparents and adoptive parents touched by adoption.adoption search and reunions. It is sent by U.S. mail and began in Spring of 2000- currently the Fall Issue is being sent out to readers. The newsletter is supported by readership donations- in the first and second issues there were 3 articles relating to death at the end of adoption search- these articles could be helpful to you. E-mail me for more information adoption@kwom.com or see my webpage: www.adoptionblessingsnewsletter.com
God bless you, Jody Moreen, reunited adoptee

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Originally Posted By Rebecca

trudi,
hey! that is really neat how we met our birthparents at about the same time. email me sometime and we can talk through email instead. ok? my email address is rebeccaann17@hotmail.com

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Originally Posted By Rebecca

hey! yes i am a Christian and i believe in God. i go to a Christian school too. but anyway, yeh it was hard to lose her. today is 4 months and its all ive thought about. but hey, i guess time will make things better.
i found a really cute quote: if tears could build a staircase and memories a lane, i would walk rite up to heaven and bring you home again. have a good day

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Originally Posted By Debbie

Wow. It is a miracle that you found her. It's so bittersweet, but at least you got to know her and the rest of your family. My family will be praying for you and yours.
God bless,
Debbie

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Originally Posted By Kim

That is an amazing story. There is such a thing as destiny and this was a gift for you and your new family. It is also true that when one door closes, another one opens. Congratulations on being pulled together in such a wonderful, although sad way.