Hey DMC,
First I wanted to say that my friends and I use to really enjoy your music back in the good old 80's. I still break out some of those cassettes every once in a while. I read about your story and it kind of touched home, but actually I am not the adoptee. When I was a teenager, a junior in highschool I got my girlfriend pregnant and her parents forced her to put the baby up for adoption because they didn't approve of me and they didn't like me because I was hispanic, she was white. They actually stripped the baby away from her as soon as she gave birth. To make things worse my parents didn't want to help me keep the baby. After that my girlfriend and I were told to stay away from each other. We both weren't the same after that. After highschool I was sent off to the military away from home and my girlfriend went off to college. Ironically years later while on military leave I traveled back to my little home town in Texas and ran into my old girlfriend that had our baby. We fell in love again and without our parents being able to tell us what to do anymore we got married and I took her away with me back to my duty station in Virginia. We tried to get legal help to see if we had a chance to get our son back, but were told by lawyers that the time limit to contest the adoption was 2 years after the birth and we had no chance. We were devastated. We searched for our son with no success. Luckily after doing some intense investigating we located the name, address and phone of the people that adopted our son. We were so happy and relieved. We contacted his adopted parents and after several years of pleading and begging with them we were able to convince them to send us pictures of him. We were so happy to see that our son was so gorgeous and healthy. Our son was 7 at that time. We then pleaded and begged to have a chance to see him or just talk to him on the phone. They said no because they were afraid that it was going to affect him some how. They also requested that we don't contact them directly and they preferred we contact them via their lawyer. Since then the adopted parents have sent some updates and pictures of our son, but that's after numerous requests from us. Their lawyer was very cruel and rude to us when we would talk to him. They don't understand that we never wanted our son to be adopted out. We had no choice in the decision. We were just kids at the time and our parents didn't want to help us. We want our son in our lives. We love him so much. We want to get to know him and let him know that he means something and that he was created out of pure love. He was not a mistake. There has not been a day that has gone by that we have not thought about him. There is a great void in our family without him. We have 2 daughters now and they know about him and they can't wait to meet him. Our son is 17 now and a senior in school. Our family prays every day that one day he will look for us and contact us and we can build a relationship and make up for lost time. We hope since he turns 18 soon he will be able to do so. Thanks DMC for allowing me to share this story with you and may you find peace in your journey.
Geovani
Laredo, Tx
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