The Search

I need to give a little background information on how we got here.

J and I have been married for almost 12 years. He told me on the 1st date that he was adopted. I had never really thought much about adoption until then and even then I really didn't think about it too much. It was probably a couple of years after we got married that he really thought about trying to find them.

He had no information other than his birthday and city and state of birth, but we really weren't even sure if that was right. Long story short, we looked for 7 years with no real hope of ever finding him. As far as we could tell, nobody was looking for him.

After searching for 6 years, we found out he could get non-identifying information from the state, so we sent for it and waited. It took 6 weeks to get it, but we finally did, and for the 1st time there seemed to be some hope that maybe we could find them. And even though it didn't give a lot of info, at least he now knew he had sisters. Three of them. But it would still take another year to find them.

A year later, with a lot of help from a lot of people, we finally found them. And that's when we found out there were 3 more kids after him! So he went from being an only child to having 6 siblings overnight!

So, J decided that I should be the one to call. I can't even begin to tell you how nervous I was. But I made it through it.

So, when I finally got her on the phone, i told her who I was and why I was calling. She was very nice and polite, but said she really didn't know what I was talking about. But she did ask me if she could think about it and call me back later. And about 8 hours later, I answered the phone and heard these words...."I think you already know this, but....HE IS OUR SON"

After 7 years, the search was finally over!