Dr. Jody Carrington

And then they found a home for unwed mothers.

I don't know how they would have done this, you know, back in the day when they were whatever they were 17, 18 years old.

And he took her to a city called Calgary, which is probably about three or four hours from where they were and dropped her off.

They made this big story that she was taking a job for the summer, for the winter, wherever it was.

and um she had my sister and she was alone uh in that process my dad just dropped her off wasn't allowed to stay um my mom had to make the decisions about you know signing the forms and you know that she did have some say in who could adopt her um but her story is horrific in terms of you know like they she wanted to see my sister and so she got to hold her for 20 minutes and then

never saw her again and and my dad picked her up a few weeks later and um she said she remembers that you know while she was there there was very lovely social workers and but people that were very clear with her that like you will never look for her you this is the decision you made you will never look for her and so um when my dad picked her up she said she remembered she'd crocheted um a skirt and a vest and that that he picked her up and they never talked about it

And she said sometimes like on her birthday or things like that, they would sort of like, you know, mom would be crying and, you know, dad would sort of comfort her, but they would just be like, okay.

So they decided to get married or they got married four years later and then had me a year after that.

So I look a lot like my sister.

And so when they, you know, I just cannot imagine that.

What that would have been like, you know, holding a baby girl five years later, you know, all of the things in your body, nobody knows.

They had to go to a city to have me because they couldn't use our local physician because he would have seen the scar.

And so they made the story, you know, that I, she had complications in her pregnancy with me so that, that, you know, they could deliver somewhere where nobody would know.

And, um, and so it's just, it's taken, we've, she'd now been in our life for, for 15 years and, um, my gosh, she looks exactly like my mother.

She, if we're in the same room, you can't tell us apart.

Like we sound the same.

Our manners are the same.

She got a degree.

We were at the same university.

We live six blocks away from each other.