Sarah Spain
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She didn't tell anyone but her parents and her one cousin.
She didn't even tell the dad because he was already off to college and she felt responsible.
Probably passed him in the aisles at the grocery store.
They were in the exact same place.
And it just happened to be that the family that adopted him out of Pennsylvania was a family that lived in Youngstown.
At first, he thinks, well, wait, if you're in Youngstown, do I have siblings?
Like, I might know them, right?
If you had other kids, I might have grown up with them.
Who else in my family might I have known?
And she did not get married.
She didn't have any other kids.
And she'd been looking for him for years.
And it's just really heartwarming how much joy she felt in not only finding out he was okay and successful, but now she has a son and grandkids and this extended family.
He says, it doesn't list a father on my birth certificate.
And he asks her, do you know who my father is?
Right.
He's nervous about it and isn't sure what to say, but he asks his birth mom, Carol, if he can be the one to tell him.
45 years later, he's going to get a phone call from someone who says, I'm your son, that he knows.
He's spent his entire life wondering about his birth parents.