Philomena: Exposing Hidden “Sins”
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This is eerily a story almost identical to my adopted brother and his biological mother who never was able to find him. Her family and his children connected, however, through Ancestry very recently, but four years too late for the mother who had a dream about keeping him only hours before she was coerced into to giving him up, same as so many single moms of that mid-20th century era.
While adoption may be the best choice, it is not a magical one as it has been portrayed to be. The grief, even for his adopted mother as she vicariously grieved for the permanent loss and did her best to encourage him to look her up–all of us have had grief that needs to be acknowledged.
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reagan@yourfilmprofessor.com says:
Wow, that is “eerily a story almost identical.” I’m so sorry that your brother and his biological mother — and loved ones supporting both — had to go through this. And, yeah, that is just so tragic that “her family and his children connected…four years too late.” As you powerfully say, like the story told in Philomena, and like your brother’s story, there are just so many stories like this that need to be told, heard about, especially in cases where women were “coerced” into giving their children up, a devastating thing to live with. And that is the power of stories like Philomena, casting light on these terrible injustices and the suffering they caused for so many. Thank you so much for sharing your story Dee, that in itself becomes part of the necessary revelation of these dehumanizing injustices that happened in the past and I’m sure still happen today.
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