Adoptee Reunites with her Mom

One day prior to the Adoptee Rights Demonstration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, our dear friend Heather reunites with the woman who gave birth to her nearly 40 years before. Heather requested that a few of her closest online friends come along for moral support. Though we were all strangers until the night before Heather's reunion, we became closer than family with each other during the three day rally.

Heather and her mom Carol are enjoying a perfect reunion story. While we are all happy for them both, the heartache and pain they both had to endure for nearly 4 decades is most tragic. Heather's mom never wanted to relinquish Heather. However, her parents had signed the paper work behind Carol's back and then coerced a lie. The lie told to Carol was that Heather had died following her birth. Carol knew better. For years she searched for her daughter. At the same time Heather searched for her mom.

It's the archaic laws in states like New York that prevent an adoptee like myself from knowing who we owe our birth to. These laws in 44 U.S. states have long outstayed their usefulness. Please contact your state legislators today. Request that they sponsor and support passage of an Adoptee Rights Bill in your state.

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[GrizzGreenGurl]

as an adopted child who has yet to find her birth mother, this brings tears to my eyes

[bsadancer]

This reminds me of when I found my birth family! Thank you for sharing :))

[misskaneza]

Wow they look just alike that's so sweet

[starlight1946]

Total Joy! I wish this could come true for me too. At 64 I still don't know who my mother is nor ever met any of her family. I have a File No. on my PA redone Birth Certificate copy done June 1950, I was born Joan Farley born in Philadelphia, PA January 25, 1946.

[mamasuntwinkle]

The tie that binds, the womb. Beautiful. Congratulations.

[ize1277]

Hope goes better than mine.

[ritzabitz1234]

don't know how they did it in an airport. i met my birth mum for the first time 3 days ago after 32 years & it's such a beautiful & emotional time. hope they're happy.

[BeautifulllColours]

This is really sweet1 I'm happy for them! :)

[maybetuesday1790]

Precious!!! They never should have been separated in the first place.