Articles Book I - Pg 66-180 (1977) - triadoption

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Mom's unhappy reunzon --
ConllPud from Page A.1 her," Shirley =Id. "If them was'any
said they wem dl-r way to help her, I would, but I can't."
lhst thelr mdbzr fs less educated. Wla said she Just wanlr c6mpanlon. ...
Jim and ~hirtey lald 'bey don'L'dislh Ship. . , ..
Zella. "I'm so lonelv. I live alone i'A dl.
Zella' vo&. I've nekr ~w'aqy
laid don n' want to
Shirley or Jlm again.
rrlative in my whole llfe,"she said. "I
can't klieve my.dreams have. var$hed
"I want to 'forget the= ldhs snd p;t- U L this." ~
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tend I never met (hem," she said. "I'm
bmgh them. ~y~ve.shown me Zella was divorcA from ihe;c&en's ' ' . . ...
thqr don't about me. I afn't going . lathff beion? he hq. bf?ldopd
to take up any d my time them lion when they were 3 end 4iye- old.
aqymors." ' She said she's heard he bas died. Since
lhen, she sald she ,has been. marrled . . . . , . . .
el la 118s me other son, from another . ... .
*lquite a few ~mea, but miage1 jut
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-W, w b she gave UP fa aP don't work for me, so I'm not going to
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pt manid again" .: ... ,'-., ...:,
, . . . . shauld be 25 now. She satd ahe Med to .:. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Iind hlm but is glvlng up her aearch
because her other two children have
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this way, I'ni Just gdng lo, forget him," . . .
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BO& Jlrn kd ~ r i esaid j hiy have- :
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n't declded htber they're going to try '
lo mntad Zella agaii~ . : .
Shirley sald she is curlous to meet ;
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Jim said he hes confllding feelings.
"I want to see her, but I don't because :
We gel Upset end them's talon When ,'
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Wla said she . locatd her. children .
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with the help d a lawyer and a Superior , . . . . .
CMUr judge after a hao-year suurh . .
Ha lawyer Uled a peUUon wilh the
Juvenile Court to open the adoption rrc- . .
Mds and Judge Morris Rozar, acting ar . .
specla1 Juvenile. Court judge, a g d to
conlad her children. . .
Since Jim's iniHal vlsit wlth Zella in i '
Oclober, she visited him me other Ume
at hls aparlment and has telephoned :
hlm mnhy tlmw.
Shirtey fist spok'e to Zella akul four ..
we& ago when Zella called her and
has spoken to her several Umn s h on .:
the telephone. q
"The 'first 'lime she called me, she
.asked If she could llve here," Shirley
said. "I told her, 'It'r not pauible. We
don't have the mom and we don't have
the money.' Then she hung up on me."
Jim said alla suggested that Uley live'
togelher but he wouldn't agree to it ei-
ther. "I don't want lo live wlth any of
my famlly," he sald.
"She seems to think I should have an
obligallon to her since she's my mother,
but I don't feel an obllgatlon to. help
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