In 1965, Donna Pavey of Kingsland, USA, gave up her daughter, Sharon Glidden, and gave her up for adoption right after birth. Here’s what Glidden told ABC NEWS: “I feel like I’ve lived my whole life for the moment I met my real mother. It was a little more than I could have dreamed because I never felt like I belonged here, along with those I thought my parents were. There was an immediate connection with her. Now I will never let her go. ”
It was only at the age of 52 that the woman came to know her real mother, only two days before she had just found out that she was adopted. Glidden recently discovered that her real mother’s parents forced her to give up on her at the age of 18 because they thought she was too young to raise a child alone.
Fortunately, she was adopted by a nice couple, Glidden chose the job of a nurse and took care of her adoptive parents until their deaths in 2007 and 2011. As for her real mother, she says she has wanted her ever since she conceived her and that she thanks God for taking care of her child.
The woman was not told that she was adopted, she only found out on the day of the adoptive parents’ death. She became curious about her roots, so she sent a DNA sample to a site that finds out about her ancestors. That’s how she discovered the shocking truth that had been hidden from her all her life.
When she found out the truth, her aunt called her and said, “Yes, darling, you have been adopted.” Then she got in the car, made a 4-hour drive, and met her natural mother who said, “I hugged her and I couldn’t let her go, she was so beautiful!”
Now the 52-year-old woman knows where that indescribable feeling of “sadness, as if something was always missing” came from. Behold, in the end, it is true that “blood is not made of water”, and the connection between mothers and their children goes beyond space and time!