065 – Two Years Too Late, Then I Was Shocked
Dana received her original birth certificate and when her husband looked up her birth mother’s name they found her obituary. It took her two years to find an address for her surviving aunt and a year to find the courage to write to her. Her Aunt gave Dana a name for the man who could be her birth father, but he was also deceased. Luckily DNA testing told a different story. Read Full TranscriptDana: https://www.temi.com/editor/t/mSXMuvWojTzzYOJT-TPNFk15BWn7MbA_pBILR7SZEkpkfSML6KBhD4MVgqsXpRzZ26_U7g5hYPK4g4n8gh_zUaUut0g?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplinkats=3.64 (00:03) She never knew about me. She thought that she was an only child for her her entire life. So finding out that she has an older sister that came as kind of like shocks or she. So she just told me she knows she needs, she needs time sheets, she needs space and I get that. You know, it’s like, I can’t imagine going thinking that you’re an only child for like most… for your entire life. Minifying boom. You have an older sister. Damon: https://www.temi.com/editor/t/mSXMuvWojTzzYOJT-TPNFk15BWn7MbA_pBILR7SZEkpkfSML6KBhD4MVgqsXpRzZ26_U7g5hYPK4g4n8gh_zUaUut0g?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplinkats=35.97 (00:35) Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Damon: https://www.temi.com/editor/t/mSXMuvWojTzzYOJT-TPNFk15BWn7MbA_pBILR7SZEkpkfSML6KBhD4MVgqsXpRzZ26_U7g5hYPK4g4n8gh_zUaUut0g?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplinkats=47.23 (00:47) This is, who am I really a podcast about adoptees that have located and connected with their biological family members. I’m Damon Davis, and on today’s show is Dana. She called me from Ohio A state we know has opened adoption records. Dana shares her story of growing up with two younger siblings, biological to her parents, but feeling equally loved by her parents. She tells the heartbreaking story of learning that she would never meet her biological mother and the near miss of a second heartbreak with her suspected biological father. Luckily, Dana was able to recover from some misinformation to learn her father’s identity. This is Dana’s journey. Dana grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. Originally, her mother didn’t think she could have children, but after Dana’s adoption, their family did expand naturally. Dana: https://www.temi.com/editor/t/mSXMuvWojTzzYOJT-TPNFk15BWn7MbA_pBILR7SZEkpkfSML6KBhD4MVgqsXpRzZ26_U7g5hYPK4g4n8gh_zUaUut0g?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplinkats=103.2 (01:43) My adoptive, I’m like, um, a series of miscarriages and she was told that she, she would never have a child see a child of her own to full term. So she put it in an application through the Catholic charities and they called her like on her birthday and they told her that we have this little girl here, she’s French and Serbian, we know that your husband is, would you like to come look at her? Or my parents were like, really excited. They go, of course. Yeah, we weren’t gonna come take a look at her. So they went in to the orphanage. Um, I think it was a saint John’s Children’s home in Cleveland, Ohio. And they, they took... Support this podcast
