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