Articles Book III - Pg 300-560 (Birthparents) - triadoption

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"We had one CUB member irr
Itimom," mid Sandra. "Doth thebinlr
mother and her son were senrclring for
each other, they later lmmd that they
had been in tlic same office within the
mme week. But the social worker never
mida word toeitheroftlirm."
And slie mllsoneof hcrown fruitlars
tiip to Richmond, when asocial worker
"mt tight there in fmnt of me.witli my
motlrer's nameandaddressand wouldn t
tell men thing. When she accidentally
dropped a ptrotop-aph from.the file, she
avooped down and grabbed it sa fnst, I
.never got a chance to scc it. Ilicn she
dcnid it cvagnpia~~mofmy morl1cr. But
if it cvnsn't a picture of m mother, why
would she be m careful a LJ ut letting me
an it?"
It wnsn't until the family friend ,in
Gnat Fnlbcontaad IicrtlratSundrawas
.' able to lam the truth about frerdd
.. mother, fmm her tmubkd Georgin
cliildliod to her fateful out-of-wedlock
pmgnancy. and the decision to relane
Sandra to someone better able tomre for
Iicr.
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nrmugh the l~elp of other family
: friends,Snndra 1111s beenable toseeall the
photograpIra she wants. And it wns this
i experienm that led her to scarch for her
own daughar.
"At the time, 1 didn't know wliat I cvns
doin ," sl~e nuid. "I puem I wnn rally
rcbetng a~ninst my adoptive parents for
; not telling me the truth about my past."
"But once I went tlimuglr all the pain .
and torture d trying to lomte my own
mother, I made up my mind that m
dnuglrterwould ncvcrlinvetoptlimug r I
that. I decided I would find iicr, even if
slie didn't want to ace are, just to kt her.
know that I wan hem if slic ever did want
to meet me.".
Sandra's ncarclr to locllte la; own
daughter lms lxen successful. And,
altlrougli she has violated both tlrc letter
drrd spirit of the law, wlriclr liy
discnuraging ado lon thmuglr intermedinrics
nnd pro I?' 11biting the rclmc of
mords, eks to treat atlop~ionn an
~kelaona in tlle farnily clwt nnd rlrgcn
both rnotlrerandcl~ild toclasetlredwro~i
tlre pnt, Sntrdm mid sllc is now more
cunretrt t11ar1 slrehnscver been in Irerlife.
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