What Family?
Nov 27th, 2019 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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When I sat at my one-hundred-year-old mother’s bedside, she told me I was adopted, that she couldn’t die without telling me. I’m seventy-three years old, what was the point when no family was left to answer my questions?
I did a DNA test, and thought–what have I done?
An e-mail appeared in my DNA account from Tom, who said he was a cousin. My parents were illiterate, poor and didn’t know they signed me away permanently.
Tom explained I was a victim of the Tennessee orphanage scandal, along with many victims.
I deleted my account and never looked back.
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