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Member Since: January 2010 Posts: 3 Send Message	John	Report	21 Jan 2010 20:22
Member Since: January 2010 Posts: 3 Send Message	As I mentioned in my earlier post my sister was also adopted and shortly after I obtained my adoption pack she decided to do the same. At the time she knew nothing of her birth family and to cut a long story short her BM was raped. Obviously my sister was shaken by this and has come to deal with it. At least she knows that her mother could but did not go for the abortion option and for that we respect her tremendously. I had been told when I was very young that my father was a milkman and as such always wondered what the truth was. I now know that my mother was sixteen and had a three month relationship with a married man and yup he was a Milkman lol. My BM was a very strict irish Catholic and had already divorced my BF and remarried. The adoption paperwork includes several letters from both my BM and from her mother to the Nunns that looked after me and my BM was clearly well supported by her throughout the birth and adoption. My BM,s stepfather was totally against keeping the baby and was the stongest influence for the adoption. What I wonder is how my BM really felt about a situation that it would appear she was pushed into, or maybe she wasn,t ?. One thing I do know is that I would not wish to upset BM in the way that my sister was and that was after her own searching.