"Surely, Prefect, this has gone far enough!"
Posted on 03/19/2019 6:50:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
I disagree with that.
Life is full of hard choices, and disappointment. We all have our cross to bear.
It often doesn’t go well when your kids find out - that is why a lot of unwed mothers “live with it”, keep it a secret, and don’t tell (hubby/kids). Often, they are not agreeable to having the intrusion/upset in their lives of the child given up for adoption making an appearance (phone call, letter, in person) one day.
This is why I remarked that the situation I described ended up a very happy reunion. The mother had been haunted for years about the little girl she gave up hours after birth & had searched for her - wrote a letter to her every year on her birthday, sent to the unwed mother’s home (they did not pass them on to the adopting parents). Her kids did know there was a child outside of marriage prior to their father. They have been very kind and welcoming, which was quite a blessing because it easily could have been the opposite. Each circumstance is unique.
That popped into my head, too. Loved that flick.
“Devil In The White City”
The rights to the book are owned by Cruiz or DiCaprio. It is a facinating, detailed, frightening, “true crime story” in which H.H. Holmes is eventuality found out, tracked down, caught, tried, convicted and executed.
A film could not do the story justice, there is way too much there to gloss over. However, it would instead make an outstanding HBO, Netflix or Amazon Prime mini series. Especially if DiCaprio played H.H. HOLMES.
If they simply and accurately told the story without embellishing it or “Hollywoodizing” it, they would have a sure-fire hit on their hands. It literally has everything that you could ask for and the facts behind the story are far more interesting than anything Hollywood could dream ip.
No, I think you’re confusing decedents with ancestors. I had to think about it for a second too.
"Surely, Prefect, this has gone far enough!"
Great book-—I hope the movie does it justice.
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A year or so ago, one of the cable channels had a documentary called "American Ripper". It was about an American who was convinced that a relative of his was actually Jack the Ripper.
After watching this show, I was pretty well convinved that this mans relative was Jack the Ripper.
One of the reasons I decided he was a good fit for the Ripper was that when the Ripper killings stopped, this guy, H.H. Holmes, was on a ship back to the States. He was an American Medical Student doing an internship in London. Shortly after the date he arrived back in NYC, a string of "ripper like" murders began to occur.
He moved around a lot, and he was in Chicago during the World's Fair, when many young women simply disappeared while attending the Fair. He had bought a hotel and redesigned the inside so that he could murder someone (with gas), then easily get the body down to the basement where he would dissect them. The hotel was later dubbed, "The Murder Hotel".
It was an interesting show on the subject, though a bit repetitious.
Exactly, except no one would believe that it actually happened.
A living decedent would be a Zombie...................
I have posted about this a little futher down the thread; but, there was a show called American Ripper on one of the cable channels about a year ago, and it followed the story of H.H. Holmes. One of the people doing the detective work was related to H.H.Holmes, and he says his family has always thought that he was the Ripper.
Exactly that happened in our in-laws’ family two years ago. The long-lost son was received with open arms by the entire legitimate family. Really amazing. Humans have the ability to be sensitive and accepting — sometimes.
The kid given up didn’t have a choice.
The kid given up didn’t have a choice.
I loved that movie. I loved both Malcolm McDonald and David Warner. I might have to watch that movie this weekend.
I would rather be a blob in a bucket than not know where i came from.
If these kids show up thru DNA good for them.the mom’s are worrying about their husbands not their other kids. Giving birth has responsibilities.
DAD!!!!!!!!!
Adoption records and birth certificates should not be sealed.
That’s right. What’s he hiding?
The Jack the Ripper mystery, like the Ted Bundy murders, is to me, unsettling, to say the least, mostly because the details are usually only alluded to -— never actually completely spelled out. I’m sure I don’t really want to know the gory details, and that they would haunt me, to know them, anyway. I feel much like I did as a child, when details of anything I was forbidden to know reached me in bits and pieces -— I had a strong need to have complete information, yet I also knew I would probably wish I’d never been informed of them.
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