Synopsis
This is a story about an adoptee’s search for his biological roots that lasted over 25 years. It relates how one little piece of information led to another, and then another, and how there eventually seemed to be no end to the amount of doors to open and things to find out. Yet there also seemed to be no end to the amount of brick walls, dead ends, and stumbling blocks in his path. The story of his search started in February of 1968, when he held his newly born daughter for the first time. After his search had ground to a halt a couple years later, there was an incredible coincidence in a small classroom in a large Cleveland college. At one point, a number of newly found cousins, aunts, and uncles swore that they had seen pictures of him dead and in a coffin. The story continues to one sunny morning in July of 1996 on the top of a windy hill in a cemetery where he knelt in prayer at a long-forgotten grave. This story will inspire any adoptee or anyone searching for lost family members to never give up, to look around all corners, to be patient, and to use each piece of information with consideration for anyone who might be hurt by its being divulged. All the information that he uncovered was obtained without having to go to court. Persistence, prayers, common sense, curiosity, and patience paid off.
About the Author
The author, Lawrence A. Weeks, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was given up at birth to be adopted. Just before he was two years old, he was adopted by a family in Euclid, Ohio, where his adopted mother still lives. Despite being told that his parents died in a car crash after he was just born, Mr. Weeks embarked on a rather long search to find out things that most people take for granted: birth certificate, birth parents, birth siblings, etc. He graduated from Euclid High School and then got a Bachelor's Degree from Cleveland State with a major in history. He now lives in Mentor, Ohio, with his wife of over 25 years. Mr. Weeks is a business skills instructor at a medical-vocational school near his home. He has been a speaker with the Greater Cleveland Right To Life and does volunteer work at his local chapter. His oldest daughter, the one whose birth initiated his long search, lives in Green Bay and has two children. His youngest daughter is an Occupation Therapist, and his son is finishing law school at Cleveland Marshall Law School in Cleveland.
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