In this reunion, like many others, there are some typical aspects and some less usual ones as well. The adoptee was never told that she was adopted, although she suspected that she was. She asked her parents if she was adopted many times, but was always told that she was not. The reason that she believed that she had been adopted was that she looked nothing like her parents.

A friend had helped arrange the adoption, and lived next door to the birth mother. As it turns out, the adoptee went with her adoptive mother to visit the friend once and she played with the children next door (her siblings). Not until reunion did she know that the children that she had play with that day were her siblings.

The neighbor confessed arranging the adoption to the siblings and told them about their other sister on her death bed. The siblings then searched and found their sister.

The article mentions that the adoptee is planning to move soon to be close to her newly found family. Her adoptive parents are not alive now to ask them why they did not tell her about her adoption. She is puzzled why they did not tell her, but does not seem to hold it against them.

I suppose the difference in reactions to not being told that you were adopted vary according to personalities. Although I have heard many people say finding out later devastated them, for others, it has a lesser affect.

I wish this family and all reunited families the best as they begin their reunion journeys. As in this story, sometimes adoptees who find birth families may not have living adoptive parents or siblings. It seems especially poignant when they discover a second family - their birth family.

Here's the story link. For some reason, I couldn't get the linky link deal to work with this one.
http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5775&Itemid=31"