A beautiful thing.

I have had one of the most beautiful things happen to me aside from having two children and a wonderful husband. Many moons ago (40 years) my mother was married to another man before she married my Dad. In this marriage I was given a gift of a sister I always wanted but never knew. I was very young when I found out I had a (1/2) sister. Well my imagination went wild oh we were going to have great fun this was of course before I knew what adoption was and what sealed records were. I knew the agency she was given to but they wanted a lot more money then what I had to find her. I went through the drama and heart ache of what if she doesn't know how would I ruin her life? Our Mom then got sick and I knew that I had to look for her if only to let her know her medical history so the search was on. I searched for 8 years but still couldn't part with the fact that she may not know. As I got older I knew that she was getting older and the medical history that I had could and might save her life. After searching many adoption sites it finally hit me that she may not know her birth parents names and then I even wondered if she knew her real birth date. I drove myself crazy for awhile but then started only searching a little a day. I would get my hopes up when I would find someone with the same birth date but all the other information was wrong. One glorious day I came across a person that had very similar information. She had everything but the birth name and didn't know her birth parents names. I had seen this post before but with those things missing I moved on. The angels must have been on my shoulder that day because I looked again and all I could think was okay the name doesn't match and she doesn't know the birth parents but how many baby girl's were born on the same day at the same hospital with a mother that was the same age and the same agency was used.?

I knew I sounded like a crazy lady when I called her but I just had to know. We talked a couple times over the next couple of weeks and agreed that we should contact the agency. That confirmed it for me. I was telling the lady all the details I had and you could tell she was trying really hard not to say more then what she was saying. I sent all of my information to verify who I was and the agency let me know that they would only contact me in writing. Ohhh great another waiting game because the paper work said they would send the information in a timely manner. What is a timely manner? I learned a long time ago to listen to my gut because it doesn't lie. I knew it would be a week before I heard anything. The anniversary of my mother's death was coming and I knew the news would come on that day. It did indeed come on that day! In our talking we had agreed that it would be nice to get to know each other and not just exchange medical history. So I was the largest spaz anyone has ever seen when I opened that letter. It said she was indeed my sister and all I could say was I have a sister!!! I was jumping up and down and screaming and just flat out carrying on! My poor family all had tears in their eyes because I was just the most happiest person anyone had ever seen then of course when I started calling everyone nobody was home..... You can't just leave that kind of message on a machine. She wasn't even home nobody was home but I didn't care I was still bouncing off the walls and looked at my family and said dinner is going to be late... So I have gone through life without a sister and now I have one and it is just the most beautiful thing. We get to write our own relationship and I didn't realize just how blessed I was not knowing her till now. We didn't grow up together and we are both adults and able to handle the situation where as if we were younger it might not be as beautiful.
Deidre