Winter Holidays 2018

This has been a magical year: My spouse found her long-lost son through 23&Me. She was looking for other relatives when his DNA sample, which had been sitting unpinged for 8 years, suddenly popped up after she sent in her saliva sample. It’s an understatement to say that touching, emotional reunions quickly followed in June and thereafter. Rather than him being resentful that she had given him up at birth, he knew long before that there was a good reason, and there was: She was a troubled teen who couldn’t give him a stable environment, her very ill mother died just four months after he was born, and her stepfather was abusive. About a year after the son was born, she left with her soon-to-be husband and had three more kids. The newly-found son is overjoyed to find he has three siblings, and they’ve been bonding ever since during these past six months. Friends can see pictures of the reunions on my Facebook page.