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Your name is (NAME) and you are 15 years old. You're pretty, smart, thoughtful, compassionate, hardworking, and you love to help those in need. You live with your single mom (your father walked out when you were 4 years old) in a low-income area of a big city. The day you turn fifteen, you apply for your first job and you're accepted. What you make is not much, but your mom needs help making ends meet with her job as a waitress. Juggling work and school doesn't leave you a lot of time for socialization, not that it really matters to you. You don't have a whole lot of friends and your mom has a drinking problem, and you're too embarrassed by that to have people over at your house.
What do you look like?
1: link
2: link
3: link
4: link
5: link
6: link
What is your mom's name?
1 or 2: first & middle names from link
3 or 4: first & middle names from link
5 or 6: first & middle names from link
Mom's name:
Where do you live?
1: Virginia Beach, Virginia
2: Trenton, New Jersey
3: Brooklyn, New York
4: Cincinnati, Ohio
5: Detroit, Michigan
6: Chicago, Illinois
Where do you get your first job?
1: McDonald's
2: Target
3: JCPenney
4: Wal-Mart
5: Wendy's
6: Burger King
What does your house look like?
1: link
2: link
3: link
4: link
5: link
6: link
A few months after you start your first job, your grandmother, (HER NAME), (first & middle names from link), dies at age (AGE) of (CAUSE OF DEATH). Since your grandfather, (HIS NAME), (first & middle names from link) died (ROLL THE DICE) years before, you haven't seen much of your mother's relatives, including your grandmother, who was not a very nice lady. Despite this, your mom still drags you to her funeral, hoping you might inherit some money from her death. The old bat wasn't rich, but she had more money than you and your mom put together.
Turns out, your grandmother did not leave you a single penny--she's not even your grandmother at all! Attached to her will is a letter addressed to you and your mom from your grandmother. In the letter, (GRANDMOTHER'S NAME), explains that after only seven years of marriage and three children, (GRANDFATHER'S NAME) had an affair with a much younger woman that went on for a year before she became pregnant--with your mother. The young woman was forced to give her baby to her former lover and his wife to raise as their own and they were paid off by her family to keep quiet about the affair and the adoption.
This news absolutely devastates your mother so much that she locks herself up in her bedroom and does not come out for literally two days. As for you, honestly, you're a little relieved--you never liked (ADOPTIVE GRANDMOTHER'S NAME), but you are extremely curious to find out what happened to your REAL grandmother. When you ask your mom about finding her, her only response is breaking down into tears. You decide to take matters into your own hands.
Through city hall, you manage to get a hold of your mother's birth certificate and adoption records. But the name of the birth mother is too faded for you to make out. Your next step is to test out your reporting skills by tracking down and interviewing your grandparents' long-time neighbors. But since most of them are over 70 and their memories, and hearing, aren't as good as it use to be, it's difficult. Until you meet Mrs. Jones, a 65-year-old woman who lived next door to your grandparents for most of her life. She tells you that there were rumors that your grandpa was having an affair, but it was never made public until your adoptive grandmother announced it in her will. You ask Mrs. Jones if she has any idea what the other woman's name was--and hold your breath. She says yes, she remembers the girl's name!!!
What is your biological grandmother's name?
1 or 2: first & middle names from link
3 or 4: first & middle names from link
5 or 6: first & middle names from link
Surname:
1 or 2: link
3 or 4: link
5 or 6: link
Her name:
You're bouncing off the walls with excitement, but you keep it to yourself for almost a whole year. You save whatever money you can from the twenty hours a week that you work until you have enough to hire a private investigator. With the name you have, as well as additional information, he is able to track down your grandmother. A week after you turn sixteen, he gets back to you: he found her! She lives in a different state, where she moved to after she graduated high school, was married but has been widowed for over (ROLL THE DICE) years, had two daughters, and has retired from a successful career as an industrialist, mainly focusing now on charities and philanthropy.
Where does she live?
1: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2: Boston, Massachusetts
3: Richmond, Virginia
4: Rochester, New York
5: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
6: Albany, New York
Now what do you do? You have no idea! It's been over thirty years and this woman has yet to acknowledge you and your mother as her family. What if she doesn't want you? Can you live with the fact that you have family somewhere and they don't know you even exist? You're not sure if you're brave enough to take that chance.
To be continued.....
Your name is (NAME) and you are 15 years old. You're pretty, smart, thoughtful, compassionate, hardworking, and you love to help those in need. You live with your single mom (your father walked out when you were 4 years old) in a low-income area of a big city. The day you turn fifteen, you apply for your first job and you're accepted. What you make is not much, but your mom needs help making ends meet with her job as a waitress. Juggling work and school doesn't leave you a lot of time for socialization, not that it really matters to you. You don't have a whole lot of friends and your mom has a drinking problem, and you're too embarrassed by that to have people over at your house.
What do you look like?
1: link
2: link
3: link
4: link
5: link
6: link
What is your mom's name?
1 or 2: first & middle names from link
3 or 4: first & middle names from link
5 or 6: first & middle names from link
Mom's name:
Where do you live?
1: Virginia Beach, Virginia
2: Trenton, New Jersey
3: Brooklyn, New York
4: Cincinnati, Ohio
5: Detroit, Michigan
6: Chicago, Illinois
Where do you get your first job?
1: McDonald's
2: Target
3: JCPenney
4: Wal-Mart
5: Wendy's
6: Burger King
What does your house look like?
1: link
2: link
3: link
4: link
5: link
6: link
A few months after you start your first job, your grandmother, (HER NAME), (first & middle names from link), dies at age (AGE) of (CAUSE OF DEATH). Since your grandfather, (HIS NAME), (first & middle names from link) died (ROLL THE DICE) years before, you haven't seen much of your mother's relatives, including your grandmother, who was not a very nice lady. Despite this, your mom still drags you to her funeral, hoping you might inherit some money from her death. The old bat wasn't rich, but she had more money than you and your mom put together.
Turns out, your grandmother did not leave you a single penny--she's not even your grandmother at all! Attached to her will is a letter addressed to you and your mom from your grandmother. In the letter, (GRANDMOTHER'S NAME), explains that after only seven years of marriage and three children, (GRANDFATHER'S NAME) had an affair with a much younger woman that went on for a year before she became pregnant--with your mother. The young woman was forced to give her baby to her former lover and his wife to raise as their own and they were paid off by her family to keep quiet about the affair and the adoption.
This news absolutely devastates your mother so much that she locks herself up in her bedroom and does not come out for literally two days. As for you, honestly, you're a little relieved--you never liked (ADOPTIVE GRANDMOTHER'S NAME), but you are extremely curious to find out what happened to your REAL grandmother. When you ask your mom about finding her, her only response is breaking down into tears. You decide to take matters into your own hands.
Through city hall, you manage to get a hold of your mother's birth certificate and adoption records. But the name of the birth mother is too faded for you to make out. Your next step is to test out your reporting skills by tracking down and interviewing your grandparents' long-time neighbors. But since most of them are over 70 and their memories, and hearing, aren't as good as it use to be, it's difficult. Until you meet Mrs. Jones, a 65-year-old woman who lived next door to your grandparents for most of her life. She tells you that there were rumors that your grandpa was having an affair, but it was never made public until your adoptive grandmother announced it in her will. You ask Mrs. Jones if she has any idea what the other woman's name was--and hold your breath. She says yes, she remembers the girl's name!!!
What is your biological grandmother's name?
1 or 2: first & middle names from link
3 or 4: first & middle names from link
5 or 6: first & middle names from link
Surname:
1 or 2: link
3 or 4: link
5 or 6: link
Her name:
You're bouncing off the walls with excitement, but you keep it to yourself for almost a whole year. You save whatever money you can from the twenty hours a week that you work until you have enough to hire a private investigator. With the name you have, as well as additional information, he is able to track down your grandmother. A week after you turn sixteen, he gets back to you: he found her! She lives in a different state, where she moved to after she graduated high school, was married but has been widowed for over (ROLL THE DICE) years, had two daughters, and has retired from a successful career as an industrialist, mainly focusing now on charities and philanthropy.
Where does she live?
1: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2: Boston, Massachusetts
3: Richmond, Virginia
4: Rochester, New York
5: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
6: Albany, New York
Now what do you do? You have no idea! It's been over thirty years and this woman has yet to acknowledge you and your mother as her family. What if she doesn't want you? Can you live with the fact that you have family somewhere and they don't know you even exist? You're not sure if you're brave enough to take that chance.
To be continued.....
Babies to me are the most adorable things in the world. When they come into this world they are are a gift from God, a precious miracle. Nothing's better than taking care of a baby. It's a lot of work, but it's good experience. Babies are so delicate, they need all the love and support they can get. I love when I hear those stories about babies being born, the stories of happy baby stories. Babies should grow up safe, and they should feel safe. They should not feel unloved, unprotected. They need to know someone is there. Babies have feelings too. Babies are a big part of this world.
