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JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2014-03-12 07:13 AM

n’er had I dreams as other people do
nay, I had but two dreams
one to find who my (real) mother was
of that dream I was thwarted
the other dream
was to leave the house I was raised in
I left
came back and left again
this was repeated
often
broke most every rule
society frowned
I sit here
old now awaiting my fate
funny thing
a hilariously funny thing
had nothing to do about a week ago
Googled my name
just for the hell of it
wouldn’t you know there she was
my mother
in the form of a
1940 U.S. Census
twenty-four-year-old Mary Turnage
born 1916 in Texas
living with my adopted parents
in Walker Creek, Arkansas
as a lodger
I found my birth mother
now what?

©March 8, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2014-03-12 07:25 AM

Take a deep breath and simply enjoy your state of being in the now my friend.
Congratulations!
Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-03-12 07:29 AM

That is basically what I am doing, Lori. Unbelievable, after all these years, I at least, know the name of my birth mother.

~*~ There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'. ~*~

Jack Napes
Member

since 2014-02-22

Posts 290
Phaedra's Womb

3 posted 2014-03-12 05:46 PM

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JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2014-03-12 05:52 PM

Yep. You got that right, Jack. This wasn't the first time I had Googled my name, but it was the first time her name popped up. I've Googled it since and she wasn't there then. Pure luck.

~*~ There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'. ~*~

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

5 posted 2014-03-12 10:30 PM

I am truly pleased that you now have an answer.jo

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2014-03-12 10:32 PM

Yes Jo, I now have a name, just not sure that I want to know more. Yeah, I think I do. Thank you for your very kind words.

~*~ There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'. ~*~

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2014-03-13 10:49 PM

nice...James

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

8 posted 2014-03-13 10:51 PM

Thanks James,

~*~ Being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.-- Nazim Hikmet ~*~

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