Because of my experience with Anastasia and her birth family, I decided I wanted to search for my birthmother. I joined a local Adoption Support Group where I received a lot of good advice on how to search, along with what kind of emotions I would experience along the way. Because records are sealed in my state, it still took me one and a half years before I felt I had found the right person.

I wrote my birthmother a letter telling her who I was and asking for a meeting. I was prepared to wait a few weeks for an answer, but she called me just a few days after receiving my letter. We agreed to meet in a town close by to where she lived, as she had not told anyone about me except her husband.

Although my birthmother, Susan, was very scared of her secret being revealed, the relationship between us quickly blossomed. I found out that so many of my personality traits had come from her. Although I loved my adoptive parents (Who had died many years before I began my search) and my adoptive relatives, I had very little in common with any of them. In Susan, I finally found someone who could understand why I thought the way I did, or why I did the things I did. We immediately became very close with each other. I found out she had never forgotten about me all these years, and was so thrilled to have me back in her life. I also found out that I had 2 half sisters and a half brother for siblings.