Steven, from Bainbridge Island, Washington—across the Puget Sound from Seattle—shared his that when he was a kid, it only took one incident to solidify his resolve never to ask his adoptive mother about his adoption.
In a maternal reunion, Stephen was confronted with the reality that, while his birth mother was not mentally capable of taking care of herself, she never forgot about her son.
On his maternal side, it was DNA testing that finally gave Steven the breakthrough he needed after decades of inquiry.
This is Steven’s journey.
Who Am I Really?
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235 - The Lost Coin
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But stay with , your younger days for a minute because that was a traumatic moment for you. You've expressed some curiosity about something about yourself and it was not received well. As a matter of fact, it was. Shot down in an aggressive way, but the thought doesn't go away. As a matter of fact, it probably gets more intense because someone has thrown fuel on what was smoldering for you, and now it turns into big flames, right?
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I must have sent out 30 of these. One day I got this small little, like a, size of a thank you card, little piece of paper in it, didn't say who it was from, said, hope this might help, had a name, it was a new married name, it was her original first name, last name, and then a new married name, and an address, and that's all I needed.
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