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Posted on 07/06/2015 11:31:01 AM PDT by EveningStar
Kayla Tovo paced next to her parked car, not sure what to expect.
"Mom, what are you doing?" her little boy called out the window.
"Give me a minute," she answered.
A decade ago, Tovo manned a machine gun for the Army in Afghanistan. Yet the meeting she was about to go to, at a park in Huntington Beach, spooked her.
On the drive over she'd stopped to buy a yellow rose.
A yellow rose means friendship. A yellow rose means starting over.
A yellow rose would express three words to someone she'd be meeting for the first time – the woman who, 27 years earlier, abandoned her next to a trash bin behind a grocery store.
"I forgive you."
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Great Story EveningStar!
Thank you for sharing this story. It would make an excellent movie. The step-Mom was wise to wait until her adopted daughter was about 13 before she was told of the circumstances of her birth (abandoned in the cold night, wrapped in a yellow blanket, and found by a janitor).
Incredible story, thanks for posting. If it brings a tear to your eye, you know you’re still human.
Our adopted daughter was abused by her druggie mother and her new squeeze and then put into the system when she was 2. We had to tell her from the get go that she was adopted because she wasn’t placed with us until she was almost 4. She needed to have her story. She had bonded with her foster parents so that was a second loss. We had some photos but no baby pix. We found her birth family and when she was 14 we drove to where they lived to meet them. She still has a relationship with them. Its been an interesting journey. We’re very blessed to have her in our lives.
I read this yesterday from the OC Register.
Excellent story, made possible by cheap DNA testing. The birth mother had two little boys, was homeless and living in a car. She leaves the boys at one of their friends and goes off behind an Alpha-Beta supermarket to give birth to this girl.
Your adoptive daughter was/ is blessed to have you and your husband in her life. I’m sure it made for a more honest relationship to let the girl know as much as she could handle.
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