Once Upon A  Time

  Hi, thanks for coming in for a visit.    You know I've heard it said that you don't really know how to appreciate anything or anyone until the thing or that person is taken from you. How sad that is, but true! That was how it was with me.  
    One day I was running and playing with my brothers and sisters, having, I thought, the happiest time of my life,  and the next day my heritage was snatched away from me, forever to be, I thought. My family was torn apart, three children to the orphanage, and one to a foster home.  That was way back in May of 1941.

   Then in October of 1983, after 42 years apart from one another, during which time our grandfather died in 1947, and our mother had died in 1968, I was reunited with that brother and sister that I had played with in early childhood, with even a younger brother who was an infant 13 days old at the time of our separation. What a blessing this was! 
    Since then my older sister and I have worked very hard on researching our family tree. We enjoy doing this so much. We don't get together too often, both of us living in separate cities, but we keep in touch by phone and computer when we can.
    I would like to pass on all this family information to my children and grandchildren and their descendants, hoping to instill in them just how priceless and precious our heritage is. It is my prayer that none of my descendants will ever have to go through the agony of "not knowing" who they are, where they came from, or where they "belong" as I suffered with for so many years, 

    I certainly hope you will enjoy your visit and reading my story. May the Good Lord bless you. I thank HIM so much for bringing my birth family back to me and in doing so, HE changed my whole personality, I found myself as a whole person once again, loved and cherished by my heavenly Father, and now able to face life as it comes to each of us.   

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