Reunion Stories
Every now and then I read someone's reunion story. It's pretty neat how quickly most adoptees are able to find their biological families. Many of them match with members of their families with DNA tests. Unfortunately for international adoptees such as myself, this is not always the case. Being that I was adopted from India, the likelihood of people taking expensive DNA tests over there is slim. In fact, majority of my closest matches are 4 to 5 generations away. And 2 of them that I've reached out to are also adopted. It's a bizarre feeling not knowing my mother and father, and not knowing if I have any biological siblings. I often wonder if my biological father, or siblings even know if I exist. The hardest part for me in searching for my family is that I have none of my original paperwork. My adoptive parents claim they don't remember where they've kept any of my adoption paperwork. And so, I'm in the process of trying to get my paperwork via other...