A Bittersweet Reunion
Margaret, who is now in her 70s, had been searching for her baby boy for decades. She repeatedly tried contacting him through the Manhattan agency, which began arranging the adoption in 1962. But none of her messages were ever delivered. As for David, whose birth certificate only showed his adoptive parents’ names, he didn’t know where to start.
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It didn’t help that the original records were sealed, either. But one day, his wife gave him a $99 DNA-testing kit. Thanks to a distant relative, the hunt eventually led him to his birth mother. To call it a bittersweet moment would be an understatement, and that’s because, by the time he finally found her, he was already dying of cancer.