Shadow205 said:
Thank you for posting this! My 1 year old daughter was screaming her head off and when I played this song, she stopped and smiled.
Shadow205 said:
SherlockJr said:It is now confirmed that SweetLife is not our Anna. How very disappointing again.
Thanks for the words of encouragement Annasunc! It blows me away when I see all the homeschooling moms (especially with 5 children) having time in their busy days to write so much in a journal. And besides, she said she wrote it for family and friends to read. Are we not her friends? If she ever needed anything, there's not one person here who would not help her out. I, for one would help her.Annasunc said:Sherlock, I hope you don't let this negative reaction spoil what is, in fact, an excellent and creative idea and strategy. In another context her reaction would be downright funny, expecting privacy while voluntarily posting loads of personal information in a medium freely accessible by literally hundreds of millions of people. Maybe she'll incorporate her experience into her lesson plans.
In thirty years as a journalist I've done my fair share of invading other people's privacy, and had to decide for myself where the line was. In those 30 years I never did anything I couldn't live with or defend. It looks like you did everything correct here, and I'm glad you did what you did!
If I give personal information to my doctor or accountant, I expect it to stay confidential. If I put pages from my diary on a supermarket or church bulletin board, I don't. The Internet is like a public bulletin board half a billion people walk by. You did a kindness by making her realize that, and I think on reflection she might realize how lucky she was that such a benign source brought it to her attention.SherlockJr said:Thanks for the words of encouragement Annasunc! It blows me away when I see all the homeschooling moms (especially with 5 children) having time in their busy days to write so much in a journal. And besides, she said she wrote it for family and friends to read. Are we not her friends? If she ever needed anything, there's not one person here who would not help her out. I, for one would help her.
I totally agree...I am always googling stuff from my childhood - places my parents used to take me, TV shows I liked to watch, etc. (I am also in my thirties, a bit younger than Anna...I wonder if it is common to get nostalgic about one's childhood at this age?) Even if Anna only remembers one or two things from early childhood, such as the song "Here Comes the Sun", it's possible she could google it and be connected to this board, and then have something else jog more memories. Great idea!GraceBlue said:Thank you for telling me a bit about Anna! It sounds like she'd be an interesting person to get to know! The reason I ask is because as we look for her, I just had to ask about her, what she was like. Also, if Anna ever googles something from her childhood, what you wrote could pop up like her favorite book, the cat, the song. I find myself googling old books and toys that I remember and I loved as a child. Never know!
:laugh: I admire your restraint in not saying "big feet run in the family." :doh:Annasmom said:Yep, we're all bigfeet. Anna's older brother is a marathon runner, and the perfume allergy runs in the family.
I received an email today from Clarissa that with some information that we had passed on to her and with the help of adoption "search angels" that we directed her to, she was able to locate her brother and be reunited with her family. Thank you, SherlockJr, for discovering this potential match for Anna and creating the scenario that has allowed her to "return home". Great job, everyone!Dr. Doogie said:The first is named Clarissa. Her listed birthday is one day off from Anna's. She has numerous memories that align with Anna's history, but enough is different to conclude that she is not Anna. Today, I received some pictures of her at around six years old and they seem to show too many differences when compared to Anna's pictures at five. I have forwarded them to Annasmom for her opinion, but am not optimistic for a match. Clarissa is a very nice lady who has been raised by a loving adopted family, but she is not Anna.
Why didn't I think of that?Annasunc said::laugh: I admire your restraint in not saying "big feet run in the family." :doh:
... or "noses run in the family" ... :doh: :doh:
I wonder if we could find out anything about "the others"--do you suppose they were in the same family? There used to be an odd thing about adoptions out of Greece in that inheritance could revert to the birth families of males, but not females--consequently only female children were usually adopted.SherlockJr said:I found this one somewhat interesting to read. Vacationing in Athens Greece???
Written by a Adoptee: (Mar 2003)
I was about 13 when I was reading through some papers in the livingroom draw. I don't know why maybe I was just bored. Anyway I came across some papers that sais an adoption would be final when the family returned from a family vaction in Athen, Greece. Whatever I thought as I stuffed the paper back in the draw. It's just about my sister (We knew she was adopted.) The I thought for a second it was my name on the paper. I thought I was going crazy. I took the paper out again and sure enough. I was the one whose adoption was going to be final. I cried and thought about why they all lied to me but told the other children they were adopted. I was simply told that they tried to tell me when I was like two or three and I was crying and saying no. So they never told me again. But that is not the end of the lies. When I got older around 25 I asked my A/M if she knew who my mother was. She lied and said yes she was an older woman very tall and she had other children. Her husband did not want any more children So I was given up for adoption. Well at 35 i got my Non-identfying information and it says that my mom was 16 or 17 and her mother would not let her bring me home. So i was put up for adoption. My A/mother died in 1997 of lung cancer so i cannot ask her why she lied. All i can hope for is that was the last of them. For now i just look forward to finding whatever biologial family i can.
http://www.findme.org/findme/index.cfm?fuseaction=StoriesSecrets&StartRow=24
I want to believe a pattern is forming here. During the search for Anna, the first adoptee was Gloria. Gloria was lives south of Los Angeles and was reunited with her birthfamily on Mothers Day this year. Next was Susan, her birth mother was found in Morro Bay this past week-end. I seem to be working up the coast of CA and hopefully the next will be Anna.Dr. Doogie said:Susan Anderton is an adoptee who was searching for her birth family. Several details of her story matched up with Anna. Her listed birthday was within one day of Anna's. Susan's birth father was a doctor and the adoption was arranged by an older man who was a "friend of the family".
SherlockJr (who discovered this possible match) followed up by researching Susan's story. Through hard work and talent, SherlockJr was able to actually locate Susan's mother and has been facilitating a reunion between mother and daughter. Susan is not Anna.
I like that thought LButlerLButler said:They say everything happens for a reason. This long search for Anna has done a lot of good for a lot of people - reuniting adoptees with parents, pulling people together to search for her ...
Maybe angels are doing some work before giving up their secrets??