99-Year-Old Woman Reunites with Daughter After 83 Years

[Contrary1]

"A 99-year-old woman who gave her baby up for adoption in 1933 finally met with her daughter.

For more than 80 years, Eileen Wagner kept a secret from her children. She thought it was the best way to protect all of them — not only the two kids she raised with her husband, but also a third child, whom she had given up for adoption in 1933 when she was a teenager.

Then, last month, 99-year-old Wagner sat alone in the front window of her home in Monroe, Wis., her eyes blurred by glaucoma, her legs weak from knee replacements, but her mind and memory intact. The phone rang, and Wagner picked up the call she had all but given up on.

"Hello, Mother," the long-lost daughter, Dorien Hammann, 83, recalls saying.

Wagner said her eyes filled with tears of joy and relief to hear the voice of her baby, now a retired senior who spends most of the year living two hours away from Wagner on the other side of Wisconsin.

More: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-mother-daughter-reunited-after-adoption-met-20160520-story.html

[Arkansas Granny]

1. What a wonderful story.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. My childhood friend at age 58 discovered last year that he was adopted.

His "parents" never told him, never left a letter, etc.

His "birth certificate"had his adoptive parents' names; but it also had a registration number for his original certificate.

I volunteered to go through two voluminous volumes of all babies born in NYC in 1957. After six tries, I found him and gave him his birth name.

Fast forward: He found his biological father through a DNA registration and got information about his biological mother. He's talked to both on the phone. While his father and stepbrother are excited about meeting him in five months, his mother freaked out as she never told her deceased husband and their three children about her first child. She's cut off all communication with my friend. While he's grateful to have made contact, he wishes his mother could be like the 99 year old in the OP story.

[jwirr]

3. Her story was much the same for most girls who got pregnant

outside of marriage. They were talked into giving up their babies. And this was still going on into the early 60s. With the introduction of the pill these type of homes started to close as they did not have as many clients.