Re: [TMIC] FATHERS DAY
Errol White (eamjwhite(AT)bigpond.com)
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:08:41 -0700
Hello Maria,
What a consequence that you should mention finding your genetic father this
week. It is ten years on the 25 June (incidentally my birthday) that I
first spoke with my biological mother. It was a phone call after I had
written her a letter less than one week earlier. I was driving an
airport-city shuttle bus those days, and I had arrived home to find many
messages and this one from a lady who was my natural mother. We spoke for
over four hours that night, gee I remember it well, 25 June 1989. We met
at her house a week later and I met my two half sisters and a week later my
half brother. You see, my natural mother married about a year after I was
born and lived only 15 miles from where I lived and she had lived at that
address for about 45 years at that time.
My natural father was no longer alive, as was Joyce's (Natural Mother)
husband. So I found and was welcomed into this extended family.
But my Mother and Father, my adoptive parents are still and always will be
Mum and Dad to me and on a scale of 1 to 10 they are definitely a 15+.
However I still contact Joyce when ever I can, that is when she is home and
not gallivanting around the country, and for a lady who is now around 77
years of age with a minor heart problem, she does real well.
So Maria, I can really appreciate what joy you must have at setting your
goal and achieving it, I hope the remainder of your family see the light and
appreciate what you have achieved for you and respect you for doing so.
I have often felt that God has a path for all of us to tread, whether it be
hilly, mountainous or on nice even level ground, it does not really matter.
We should seek to walk that path (so to speak) and in walking it, stop
occasionally to smell the roses, thank those who assist and elate us along
the way and forgive those who hinder and upset us.
Kind Regards from Errol, Narangba, Queensland, Australia. ( Who hopes that
Australia can beat Pakistan in the World Cup Cricket match being played at
Lords, England tonight, Sunday 20 June 1999)
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