[jhynesrockmtn]

The sis I grew up with and I were both adopted. I started a search after my daughter was born. Found my birthmother and a brother and sister after about a year and a half. This was over 30 years ago. Great addition to my family and I'm blessed to know them. My Bio Mom was always quiet about her relationship with my birthfather. Her best friend of 70 or so years pulled me aside last year and we had a long talk. Turns out she introduced them and they were married. His folks worked hard to break it up and they succeeded. He committed suicide later the same year I was born. I have also met surviving members of his family. I hadn't known this whole time that they were married.

My sister recently found a bunch of her bio family tree. Our folks had always told us about our history, to the extent they knew it. There was a story about her birth father being a football player. Turns out they were right. He was the kicker/punter on an LSU national championship team and pro bowler in the NFL with a 12+ year career.