Thank you for this heart wrenching peek into your family's history. I find personal narratives/biographies fascinating. I guess because I grew up anonymous with people without emotion or compassion. On the flip side of your story about finding two half brothers, I am pretty sure my older sister and I are not related. I refuse to go the Ancestry route mostly because I do not want my dna in the netherspear. Don't trust jack shit about our system. I'm not saying mom had an affair. I am speculating that the hospital where sister was born, 15 months before my birth, had a nefarious reputation reeking of abuse, endangerment, death, and mysteries, and perhaps the babies were switched at birth. The hospital is now closed, has been for some time....shut down due to the aforementioned. My sister and I never connected at any point in our lives (and we are in our 6th decade). Sister never connected with anyone and lives 3,000 miles away, only because any further and she would have to leave the country. Other clues have emerged over the 6 decades. I have tried in vain to get information about the babies born on THAT day in the 1950s - from the town, from the local library - all to no avail. So I am left with the dna path....which I don't know if I want to go down. Thanks again for an inspiring post.
Thank you for this heart wrenching peek into your family's history. I find personal narratives/biographies fascinating. I guess because I grew up anonymous with people without emotion or compassion. On the flip side of your story about finding two half brothers, I am pretty sure my older sister and I are not related. I refuse to go the Ancestry route mostly because I do not want my dna in the netherspear. Don't trust jack shit about our system. I'm not saying mom had an affair. I am speculating that the hospital where sister was born, 15 months before my birth, had a nefarious reputation reeking of abuse, endangerment, death, and mysteries, and perhaps the babies were switched at birth. The hospital is now closed, has been for some time....shut down due to the aforementioned. My sister and I never connected at any point in our lives (and we are in our 6th decade). Sister never connected with anyone and lives 3,000 miles away, only because any further and she would have to leave the country. Other clues have emerged over the 6 decades. I have tried in vain to get information about the babies born on THAT day in the 1950s - from the town, from the local library - all to no avail. So I am left with the dna path....which I don't know if I want to go down. Thanks again for an inspiring post.