Sunday, March 6, 2016

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This week has been....interesting.  OK it's been just plain crazy. I haven't really processed it all yet.  So most everyone who knows me knows I am adopted. When I was young apparently toddler age my biological mom took myself and older siblings and moved to Oklahoma. I was later as a preteen taken by the state because of the abuse and then later adopted. Well that's the extremely short version so I can get to my point. I've never known my bio dad and with a mother who was less than honest all I had to go on were very few details. I've searched many times and come up empty. Well this week that changed. I found something. It was the notice of his death. He's been gone for 25 years and I never knew. I almost tossed my phone in shock when I saw my birth name listed among his surviving family members. I didn't think anyone knew about me. That's when I did something completely out of my comfort zone I sent a couple of his siblings listed a fb message....totally insane right? All the sudden yesterday morning I started getting replies. Thankful they were open to answering questions and way more kind than I would have probably been to a stranger sending me a crazy Facebook message. I found out I have THREE siblings I didn't know about and that Bryan looks just like my father did.  There's more information and more questions but like I said I'm still processing all of it.