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  3. Betty Morrell, left, and her birthmother, Lena Pierce, 96, are reunited at the Greater Binghamton Airport on Jan. 15, 2016.
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  7. Betty Morrell, left, and her birthmother, Lena Pierce, 96, are reunited at the Greater Binghamton Airport on Jan. 15, 2016.
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  50. ALBANY, N.Y. — Eighty-two years after she was born to a teenage girl and put up for adoption, Betty Morrell finally has met her 96-year-old birth mother, thanks to the dogged persistence of her granddaughter during 20 years of searching.
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  54. "After my adoptive parents died, that's when I started looking," Betty Morrell said Thursday by phone from her home in Spring Hill, Florida. "Being that it was a closed adoption, it's like hitting a brick wall because you can't get any information."
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  57. Morrell was born in 1933 in the central New York town of Utica to Lena Pierce, who named her Eva May. Social welfare officials took the baby away because Pierce, then 13, was herself a ward of the state. Eva May was adopted by a family on Long Island and grew up as Betty Morrell, an only child.
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  59. "I grew up a very happy child," Morrell said. "I was so content in the family I was adopted by."
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  61. She was in her early 30s when she started looking for information about her birth family. She had been told her birth mother had died during childbirth and was shocked when she eventually learned she was still alive.
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  63. Morrell's granddaughter, Kimberly Miccio, started helping with the search when she was 12.
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  66. "My grandmother had been looking for a long time," said Miccio, 32, who now lives with her husband and three children a few minutes away from Morrell. "She had never tried through the Internet, so we started going through different sites."
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  68. It took 20 years, but the breakthrough finally came in September. Miccio got in touch with a distant relative of Morrell's through Ancestry.com, and that person put her in touch with Millie Hawk of Windsor, New York, one of Pierce's daughters.
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  70. "Kim and I got on the phone and called her," Morrell said. "I had found my baby sister, who's 65. We just clicked. It was like we had known each other all our lives."
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  72. Morrell learned she had four sisters and two brothers, and that her mother was alive and well, living in an assisted living apartment complex in Hallstead, Pennsylvania. That's about 20 miles from where Hawk lives.
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  74. "I rushed to my mother's house to tell her," Hawk said. "She just sat down in a chair and cried. She said, 'My Eva May, they found her?' It was just so emotional."
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  77. Morrell and Miccio flew to Binghamton, near Hawk's home, last month. Hawk brought their mother to the airport.
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  79. "The minute I saw her come through the security door, I just got goosebumps," Hawk said. "Mother reached for her; Betty said. 'Mom.' They hugged and cried."
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  81. "There were a few tears, and shaking," Pierce said. "It sure was a joy to finally meet up with her. It's kind of hard when you have a child that you get separated from. I never wanted to give her up."
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  83. Since then, Morrell has been talking regularly with Hawk by phone and Facebook, and they're planning a get-together in Florida in the spring. She talks less often to Pierce. "Sometimes I have to remind my mother of who I am," Morrell said. "I say, 'I'm your long-lost daughter Eva May.'"
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  85. Morrell offers encouragement to other adoptees who have contacted her via Facebook, telling of their own searches.
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  207. One thing you can say about Betty she is persistent! I'm familiar with a similar story in my family unfortunately the recently uncovered "father" had passed and his kids from a second marriage wanted nothing to do with half brothers and sisters. So not even a picture or father's health history shared between siblings. Congrats to Betty on her happy ending.
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  234. @lakeelmo99 That is a shame they would not share the health history. The half siblings from the father's first marriage were his first family. They are at least entitled to the health history - even if the second family wants nothing to do with them.
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  262. sometimes mothers would be happier not meeting the child given up for adoption. this seems to always be ignored.
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  314. @navynuke86 @kennyrogers Yes happens all the time many having moved on or too embarrassed to admit what they did as a teen. My family included.
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  341. I have a friend this happened to, and she was crushed, wished she never searched for her biological mother.
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  367. great story with a happy ending. Anyone facing a difficult choice needs to know there are happy endings.
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  393. I will never making the phone call to my great aunt. I told her who I was, and that my mother was her sister's daughter--given up for adoption many decades ago. There was a very long, very silent pause and then she said, "I have wondered my whole life what happened to her."
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  449. My husband used to say, "In the good old days when everything was bad."
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  477. I'm really glad this story had a happy ending. But I wonder sometimes how many don't. The most extreme case I've heard about was a woman whose half-siblings were willing to give her info about her late father, but told her they had no interest in having a relationship with her. She wouldn't take no for an answer and ended up with a restraining order threatening her with arrest if she ever contacts them again.
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  509. @dahutys My grandfather's family was the same way. His wife had never known about my mother and getting any info, even medical info, never happened. I truly feel terrible that I was the one that told his widow the information. Sometimes, you have to see it from the other person's perspective. I never felt I had the RIGHT to know, because I didn't. Some people who give up children simply can't/don't want to remember how hard it was and I respect that. Seeing it as a right is WRONG. Be grateful the person gave you up. And respect their choice if they choose not to embrace you.
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  535. Wonderful story
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  562. PC or otherwise, the current term is 'making an adoption plan.' No birth parent wants to 'give up' a child for adoption. As an adoptive parent of two wonderful children, I can't even imagine what it would be like to part ways with a child through adoption, especially in a closed adoption situation, as ours were.
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  567. As some others noted on here, today's connectedness through the internet and with a little detective work by someone, we were able to make contact with the birth mothers of both of our children and now have semi-regular contact with them through Facebook, though they are in another country. We intend to return to their country of birth to allow them to connect with their birth mothers, which the birth mothers also want to do.
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  594. Granted, in stories like this and probably many more in that time and now, the birth mothers didn't have a choice, so 'plan' may not apply.
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  620. @applejeff My grandmother's sister took my mother form her. My grandmother was sterilized by the "charity home" she lived in during my mother's gestation. That was her penance. She never had another child. And by the time my mother found her family, she had been dead decades.
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  647. @applejeff I gave away a child at 16 quite willingly. The only "plan" was to make it go away. I don't want children, period (got fixed to prevent it, too). I do not want a relationship with this person and will refuse contact if an attempt is made.
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  676. @kn12345 @applejeff Please see my comments above. I believe every birth parent has the right you describe. Some doors are meant to stay closed. The story is lovely, but I agree wholeheartedly with your decision.
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  737. @applejeff Thanks for another positive story. It sounds like your children are fortunate to have you and birth mothers who are interested in contact. I wish the best for all of you.
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  789. Good thing abortion was not legal back then or this story would have ended at the bottom of a trash can in 1933.
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  815. @genericlogin In those days when a girl or woman chose abortion, she usually died as well. Those are the "good old days" that some long for.
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  867. Abortions were illegal, but that didn't stop desperate women from resorting to desperate measures. My grandmother nearly died from a self-inflicted abortion in 1935.
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  998. Openness in adoption is a gift. No shame, secrecy or lying. Everyone deserves the right to know where they came from, and when we remove the stigma associated with adoption I guarantee everyone will be happy for the connection. I have never met a birth mom who did not think about her child every, single day. I don't know an adopted person who has not wondered about their birth parents. And I've known hundreds of both.
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  1052. @kn12345 @barlando1 Adopted kids should get the chance to meet their "roots". A long-term relationship with the birth parents isn't always feasible or wanted. It is a case by case situation for both the child and the birth parent. All the counseling we went thru when adopting recommended OPEN adoption....as it provides the kid with knowing their roots or true identity. Once it's all in the open, both sides can decide if/when they want to pursue a long-term relationship. What's most important to keep in mind.....is the adopted child's needs.
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  1106. @kajoigh @kn12345 @barlando1 If you choose an open adoption, then that is fine. But for birth parents who placed children for adoption under state laws that promised them privacy, that promise should be kept. People place children for adoption for may reasons, often deeply personal and private. The decision to place a child for adoption can be very painful, even traumatic. Adoptees do not have the right to contact their birthparents, disrupt their lives and make demands upon them. Adoptees do not have the right to re-traumatize a birthparent, just to satisfy their curiosity or fulfill a desire to know about their family roots. If you placed a child for adoption under a state law that did not require disclosure of your identity, it is terrible betrayal to force -- or even pressure -- you to reveal your identity.
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  1132. @kajoigh @kn12345 @barlando1 Nonsense., Their true identity is the one the adoptive parent gives them.
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  1158. @dknsspo @kajoigh @kn12345 @barlando1 yes, very well said.
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  1184. i think, in maybe some small way, it breaks the heart of an adoptive parent, and you should refrain from looking.
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  1210. @kn12345 @barlando1 And I completely respect that right.
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  1273. "There were a few tears, and shaking," Pierce said. "It sure was a joy to finally meet up with her. It's kind of hard when you have a child that you get separated from. I never wanted to give her up."
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  1283. My brother and sister-in-law were able to adopt and raise two children due to similar birth circumstances.
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  1310. @antigone11 Adoption is a gift, and openness is the best possible option for a child. No wondering and guessing...just honesty and more people to love you.
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  1381. @mdmac2704 You don't know the circumstances, and neither do any of the rest of us. Thirteen-year-olds aren't able legally to give consent.
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  1509. @stepchild @Mtka @mdmac2704 Not at thirteen, I wasn't. And as one reader pointed out, 13 is THREE YEARS too young to consent.
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  1598. One of the best things to come out of the invention of the Internet ... the ability to connect. I found a half-sister the same way.
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  1624. Connection with birth family is so important for adoptees. It takes nothing away from us adopted parents or our love. They just need to know...
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  1650. @njoylife303 And yet, in the wrong hands it can destroy people who have made the choice to give you up to a loving home.
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  1763. @BallFour @eli2abeth @sailing64 Wish I could say the same, I know two of five who have no desire to find "their roots." And in any case, a birth parent has the undisputed right to live in privacy.
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  1824. @sailing64 When Oregon opened its adoption records, there was a generation gap on this issue. I'm a boomer, and women my age and younger were all for it. Older women were opposed, because they thought that if the birth mother had married and had other children, who found out about her past as a result of the adopted child finding her, then they would reject her for being "immoral."
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  1826. The adoption laws of the past were the result of Puritanical attitudes, in which any unmarried woman or girl who became pregnant, even if it was the result of rape or ignorance, was considered little better than a prostitute. The "solution" was to whisk her away to an institution in another state, where she would earn her keep working as a housekeeper for some "respectable" family and would possibly never even see her child, if the delivery was under full anesthesia.
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  1857. @sailing64 Everyone involved should be considerate. But adoptees right to know surely is equal; they didn't ask for their circumstance.
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  1883. @ronarona @sailing64 No. Their "right to know" is non-existent. If someone is open, great; but the parent's right to remain anonymous is paramount.
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  1909. @sailing64 There's a pretty fundamental need to know who you are and where you can from. The birth parent can say no to the meet. That would hurt, but for many adoptees you've got to at least try.
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  1936. @natksou @sailing64 That works both ways. A dear friend had been forced by her parents to give up a baby boy. Several years ago she decided to try to find him. She knew a few details and I helped her locate him. He knew he was adopted but had absolutely no interest in meeting her. He later contacted her for health information, and he also contacted his birth father for the info, but has refused to meet either of them or have anything to do with them. Some adoptees do not have that "fundamental need", I know quite a few.
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  1988. very good voice of reason here. not "ALL" of the world is duckies and bunnies.
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