Amazing News

This is an interesting post for me because it is about family.

I was adopted; about five years ago I contacted my mother's stepfather and found out that the entire family had muscular dystrophy. He told me that both my mother and father had kept me a secret all this time and they didn't want anything to do with me.

Then, I found my brother and sister via Facebook.

For a while, I was content with looking at photos of them and wondering what their lives were like. One night, after I had spoken to someone at the Samaritans to get my courage up, I wrote him a letter.

He wrote back the following day saying he'd love to get to know me. When we finally talked, he said he'd known I existed for twenty years. Our mother is dying of the disease and he has asked me not to inform our sister yet. It feels very strange to write that sentence about people other than my adoptive parents and sister, but it is nevertheless true.

When I told my adoptive mother that my brother and I were talking, she spoke again to the woman who originally gave me my step-grandfather's information. We started to wonder whether he was telling the truth about everything considering what my brother had said. So she got in touch with the woman's daughter, who gave my my birth father's name. I never knew it, or who he was, and now I believe I have found even further siblings on Facebook.

I am unsure about whether or not I should contact them. It is a dramatic development all the same, and wonderful news after such a long time in the dark.