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Thank You Son for Finding Me: A Birthmother's Story
Thank You Son for Finding Me A Birthmother's Story Author:Beth J. Kane As a naive, pregnant and bewildered twenty-year-old, Beth Kane believed the nuns at St. Elizabeth's Home for Unwed Mothers in San Francisco. They told her over and over, "Your baby will be better off adopted. Keep it a secret. Forget it and get on with your life." Thank You, Son, for Finding Me vivi... more »dly describes the emotional consequences of being pregnant and unmarried in 1947.
Forty-five years later, the words, "Hi, Mom" flew off the page of a Special Delivery letter, shattering Beth's denial and replacing it with numbed disbelief. Her son's five-year search for his mother ended in a joyous reunion in 1993. That day, their lives changed forever. It was hard for her to understand how she could ever have given him away.
The reunion with her son gave way to an awkward, fearful period as Beth groped for the right way to behave while building a relationship with him. The feeling of immediate love between two strangers who happened to be mother and son was overwhelming.
Thank You, Son for Finding Me portrays both the would inflicted by separation at birth and the moments of happiness in reunion that develop, despite complications, into deep, enduring love between a birth-mother and the son she gave away.« less