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Articles Book III - Pg 1300-1479 (Reunions etc) - triadoption

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Search leads to formation<br />

of adoption support group<br />

By CHRIS CARSON<br />

Associate Edltor<br />

Darlene Gerow's daughter, Kathryn,<br />

turned 17 on Sunday. And for the first time,<br />

Darlene got to wish her daughter a happy<br />

birthday.<br />

Darlene gave Kathryn up for adoption<br />

three days after her birth in i967. She had no<br />

idea what happened to her baby until last<br />

November, when she made contact with<br />

Kathryn's adoptive parents.<br />

Now Darlene can't tell people enough<br />

about her daughter. "I tell anyone who's<br />

willing to listen," she said with a laugh. It's<br />

obvious Darlene loves to talk about Kathryn<br />

- she smiles, her eyes mist over and the<br />

words just tumble out.<br />

Darlene and her husband, Gene, live in<br />

Nikishka. They have a 2%-year-old son,<br />

Gabe, and Gene's hvo sons from a previous<br />

marriage also live with them. He teaches at<br />

the community college, and she worked as a<br />

graphic artist until Gabe's birth.<br />

It was more than a year ago that Gerow<br />

started the search for her daughter. "I'd<br />

always wondered about her," she explained.<br />

"Not knowing was the hardest part. I didn't<br />

even know if she was still alive."<br />

Kathryn's birthday, March 18, was<br />

always the saddest day of the year for<br />

Darlene. Very few people outside her immediate<br />

family knew that she'd had a baby<br />

while she was a teenager, "and it's veg<br />

hard, keepinga secret like that," shesaid.<br />

.Darlene finally decided to see if she could<br />

locate her child and learn if the child wanted<br />

See AREA, Pa~e 10

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