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From: Lucy Wilson <>
Subject: Re: [PA] Re: PENNSYLVANIA-D Digest V99 #55
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 21:06:07 -0400


That made me a little teary eyed. Such a sweet story. In my researching
my family, I include everyone. I have so many people that aren't
directly related to me, but you know, no matter what, they are my
family... No matter how distant. I really didn't grow up with a big
family all around me, so I take advantage of being able to gather any
facts on my family.

Well that's my two cents.
Lucretia.

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:24:26 PDT "Lynn Harper" <>
writes:
> Regarding Adoption:
>
> I never thought about it until you mentioned "you weren't blood!"
> What a
> hurtful thing to say!
>
> My sister is ten years older than me; I didn't know she was my
> half-sister
> until I was about 15 and discovered her name written in a copy to
> the
> "Bobsey Twins" we had. By then she was married, had a family of her
> own,
> and lived back east. Mama told me about her first marriage at that
> time.
> Shocked! Yes. But my sister was still my big sister; she will be
> till the
> day one of us dies.
>
> At the age of 49 she was "legally" adopted by our Dad; it was our
> dying
> Mama's wish. They never had the money to adopt her when they first
> wed, but
> she used his last name from that day on, never knowing the
> difference.
> Attended school, entered the Air Force, married...always using Dad's
> name.
> You should have seen the face on that lawyer when we all showed up
> in his
> office, just before Mama died, as we watched the papers being
> signed. We
> then took them right over to the hospital for Mama to read. She was
> finally
> at peace with her "secret" made right. Think of what our future
> generations
> will make out of that one?
>
> Lynn in CA
>
>
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