After three weeks of deep soulsearching and reflection I decided to post my father’s complete adoption file on my website. Everyone and anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of a sealed adoption can see what it looks like on paper. It’s my gesture of love to my brothers and sisters in the adoptee-rights movement.
But, [...]
I recently received the complete contents of my father’s sealed adoption file. This is what I received.
Adoption petition
The “Petition of Mrs. Carrie Elizabeth Henderson and Roabie Wesley Henderson to Adopt Tommie Robert Brooks” begins with a three sentence statement attributed to Miss Glendora Brooks in which she says it’s her “desire” [...]
At long last!
The final legal barrier between me and the truth of my heritage was obliterated yesterday. Judge Eugene Reese of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama signed an Order for the Alabama Department of Health, Center for Health Statistics to unseal my father’s birth and adoption records.
My father was born in Phenix City, [...]
When I learned my grandmother’s name yesterday they also gave me her last known address. Unfortunately, that’s all the information they have on her. They don’t have an age, medical history or anything.
But that’s okay. Even an address can be very telling.
My grandmother’s last known address was: 1725 3rd Avenue Columbus, Georgia. This was where [...]
One day before I die I’ll learn the name of my father’s mother.
I’ll come from work fresh off the bike, and I’ll make out a message on my voice mail between the impatient meows of my cat. I don’t recognize the name and they’ve asked me to call them back about a “very important” matter.
I [...]
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