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{As of mid-Nov.}
"Dear Sheena,
Hello!
My name is Kim, Hee-jung, a social worker in charge of post adoption services at E.S.W.S.
I have received your letter and your request of birth search from A.S.I.A. I have been searching for your birth mother, but I have yet to find out the birth mother. I am still in process of the search..."
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The sense of urgency about the search drifts to the back of my mind nowadays. -But- I wait everyday- even if it takes years I'll still wait everyday.
Even to hope for a response & even more a reunion is a dream. I wonder what their doing right this second. I wonder if my biological brother is serving his two years in the Korean army. I wonder if I have half-siblings. I wonder if maybe my birth parents ended up marrying each other- despite protest from Duk Im's- my birth mother's parents. If they had another child after me- another daughter- that would be amazing. It's so easy to let imagination take hold of me.
I think a common question for adoptees who search is: If you ever met your birth mother &/or birth family- what is the first thing you'd say or ask? Moreover, such a question is confounding. It's not uncommon for a child given up for adoption to be "relinquished" seconds after the birth. Therefore, the birth mother never once looks at her child- either forced or by choice. ~I think the first thing I'd ask: Is this the first time our eyes have met? Is this the first time we've looked into each other's eyes and seen our own?
"Dear Sheena,
Hello!
My name is Kim, Hee-jung, a social worker in charge of post adoption services at E.S.W.S.
I have received your letter and your request of birth search from A.S.I.A. I have been searching for your birth mother, but I have yet to find out the birth mother. I am still in process of the search..."
-
The sense of urgency about the search drifts to the back of my mind nowadays. -But- I wait everyday- even if it takes years I'll still wait everyday.
Even to hope for a response & even more a reunion is a dream. I wonder what their doing right this second. I wonder if my biological brother is serving his two years in the Korean army. I wonder if I have half-siblings. I wonder if maybe my birth parents ended up marrying each other- despite protest from Duk Im's- my birth mother's parents. If they had another child after me- another daughter- that would be amazing. It's so easy to let imagination take hold of me.
I think a common question for adoptees who search is: If you ever met your birth mother &/or birth family- what is the first thing you'd say or ask? Moreover, such a question is confounding. It's not uncommon for a child given up for adoption to be "relinquished" seconds after the birth. Therefore, the birth mother never once looks at her child- either forced or by choice. ~I think the first thing I'd ask: Is this the first time our eyes have met? Is this the first time we've looked into each other's eyes and seen our own?