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pregnancy. He wanted to marry her, but she refused;<br />

causing their relationship to end after only a year.<br />

When time came for the delivery Diana was rushed to the<br />

hospital under an agreement with social services that she<br />

would give her baby up for adoption. She already had a<br />

son, Thomas, and could not afford to feed another child.<br />

During the birth, she reluctantly was put under anesthesia<br />

with the condition that when I was born, social services<br />

would immediately take me to be enrolled into foster care.<br />

When Diana awoke from the anesthesia, I was gone. She<br />

too, was alone in her hospital room sobbing after the loss<br />

of her child.<br />

She regretted her decision and tried to rescind the<br />

agreement with social services, but it was too late. I was<br />

already enrolled in foster care and they wouldn’t reveal<br />

<strong>my</strong> location.<br />

The next month, Diana, tried to take her own <strong>life</strong> by<br />

swallowing a bottle of pills.<br />

She was unsuccessful.<br />

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