What a great story! Thanks for sharing. That's what I love about my Family tree research. The dates, places and other documentation is exciting when we first come across them, but the real history; stories that are the heart of the family is what keeps me interested and what I think future generations will appreciate the most. Remember when we were in school and our teachers were trying to sink history into our brains? Don't you think if we had been taught in a way that included our families participation, their daily lives in different periods of history we would have paid more attention? I know I would have, because now I can't get enough of it. Penny T ----- Original Message ---- From: Carolyn Long <carolynlong@earthlink.net> To: Orleans Parish listserve <LAORLEAN@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2008 1:22:40 PM Subject: [LAORLEAN] the rest of my adoption story Yesterday I told the list about my adoption and the secretive attitude of my adoptive parents--by which I really meant my adoptive mother, Louise. I had been in contact with my birth mother, Marianna, since 1977, and had visited her and met my half-siblings (although Marianna was from Jacksonville, Florida, all of them had resettled in California). When Louise died in 1980 I finally told my adoptive father the story. He was so interested in it, and I gave him Marianna's address and suggested that he write to her. Pretty soon they were corresponding and talking on the phone, and eventually they met and fell in love. My 78-year-old Daddy sold his house in South Georgia, packed a few belongings in his car, and drove to California, where he and Marianna were married. Unfortunately, Daddy died of emphysema a few years later, but I think it was really a positive experience for both of them, and it certainly was for me. --- Carolyn Long --- carolynlong@earthlink.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com