Biological Father tops New Hampshire Adoptee’s Christmas List. By Kelly Grace Kandy Braley has known all of her life that she was adopted, and like all adoptees, she felt that void in her soul where her biological family fit. When she was 22, she found her biological mother, and while her birth mother may know her biological father’s name, if she does, she will not divulge it to …
Client Stories
3 Men and a Baby
Shari Jo was born in March 1961 to a 17-year-old mother and her 16-year-old boyfriend. Shari Jo’s strict grandparents intended that her mother would place her for adoption, but when she was born, that changed when they saw her and it was decided they would keep her. Her mother still lived at home, with her older sister and younger brother, so Shari’s first year was spent with a large family who doted on her. Shari Jo’s mother met the man who raised her when she was about a year old. …
Not All Stories Have a Happy Ending
When Nicole Koharik was a child, she was very shy and withdrawn. She lacked confidence in her identity. She was the only girl among 7 male cousins and usually ordered what the cousin closest to her in age ordered when they went out for breakfast. He ordered pancakes – and she did too. But she secretly hated pancakes. Her favorite movie was E.T. she understood the need the little creature had for wanting to go “home”. For although she had a good home and a loving Father, she didn’t look like …
The Man in the Mirror
I was 45 years old when I learned of my NPE status. Both of my parents were dead, and everyone I asked about my paternity either felt sworn to secrecy, outright lied, or had no idea who could possibly be my father. Most people really wanted me to know that my birth certificate father (BCF) loved me. That felt strange. It was strange because there was nothing else I previously thought I was more confident about. I immediately started to wonder if I should question my dad’s love for me. Do I …
Eileen’s Story – Let the Leaves Fall
Eileen Hill was born on a snowy day in January 1963 in the back of her Father’s Taxi Cab as he was rushing her Mother to the hospital. She was the baby of the family, with nine living older siblings. Her brother Danny had died three years before she was born in a tragic accident when he was 10. She doesn’t think her mother recovered from losing her firstborn son. Eileen was close to her older sister, Kelly, four years her senior. Each of the older children had a younger sibling they were …
Ruth Ann Renner
When Ruthann was a child, she was jealous of her siblings going off for outings with their father. Beingthe youngest of 5, she would watch her older siblings and envy the relationship they had with their dad.But since he wasn’t her father, she would be left behind to wonder who was her dad. She grew up in apoor, dysfunctional family and she remembers vividly sitting on her cracked driveway, drawing in thedirt with a stick and thinking she would be better than they were. She would get out of Long …
