<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Adoption.com News</title><link>http://news.adoption.com</link><description>Adoption.com News</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:13:37 +0000</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:13:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>A Memorable Reunion from Down-Under</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/a-memorable-reunion-from-down-under</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:26:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/a-memorable-reunion-from-down-under</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[In 2005, Streetsboro resident Larry Snyderburn received a phone call from a New Zealand native, asking him whether he'd been in the Navy; whether he'd ever been to Littleton, New Zealand...]]></description></item><item><title>The Choice to Find Biological Parents</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/the-choice-to-find-biological-parents</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:34:43 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/the-choice-to-find-biological-parents</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Most people take for granted what it is to be someone, from somewhere. But for Cynthia Guditus, a happily married suburban mother of three, there is one perpetually nagging question...]]></description></item><item><title>Adopted Woman's Journey to Find Her Biological Mother</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-womans-journey-to-find-her-biological-mother</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:03:26 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-womans-journey-to-find-her-biological-mother</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Cynthia Guditus was adopted in New York 43 years ago, but never chose to look for her birth mother until two years ago. She says she had a happy childhood and dearly loved her...]]></description></item><item><title>My Brothers Keeper: Lost Sibling Found 31 Years Later</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/my-brothers-keeper-lost-sibling-found-31-years-later</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:03:26 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/my-brothers-keeper-lost-sibling-found-31-years-later</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA["I was totally devastated by the loss of a dream, either he didn't know he was adopted, or he didn't want to pursue it." A tear slowly slid down the cheek of Nancy Hickcox's face, a hand...]]></description></item><item><title>Lunsford Family, Split Long Ago, Reunites</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/lunsford-family-split-long-ago-reunites</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:50:31 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/lunsford-family-split-long-ago-reunites</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[For 39 years, the questions have mounted in the back of Jonnie Lunsford Turner's mind. The Spindale resident has passed decades wondering about her youngest brothers, James and Dennis Fine...]]></description></item><item><title>Family Gathers after 30 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-gathers-after-30-years</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:50:31 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-gathers-after-30-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[It wasn't until the age of three that Helen Cooper (Ruby) and her twin brother Frank Ruby found a permanent home with the foster family who eventually adopted them. After being taken into...]]></description></item><item><title>Separated Twins' Shock at Meeting</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/separated-twins-shock-at-meeting</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:15:09 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/separated-twins-shock-at-meeting</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Identical twins who were adopted at birth and had no idea the other existed have described their astonishment when they finally saw each other. Yvette and Margaret Smith were...]]></description></item><item><title>Chinese Adoption Trip, Memories Revive Special Reunion for Families</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/chinese-adoption-trip-memories-revive-special-reunion-for-families</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:39:03 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/chinese-adoption-trip-memories-revive-special-reunion-for-families</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[After a Brookfield couple, Jamie Settimi and Dennis Wolf, traveled to China 13 years ago to adopt their first baby, they naturally brought home a new and blooming bond between parents and child....]]></description></item><item><title>Adopted Chester Man's Appeal Over Missing Photos of His Mum</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-chester-mans-appeal-over-missing-photos-of-his-mum</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:42:09 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-chester-mans-appeal-over-missing-photos-of-his-mum</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Tom Hopkins, 24, was adopted when he was just 11 weeks old after his Blacon mother gave him up when she was on holiday in Camarthenshire, South Wales. His mother died 13 years ago and...]]></description></item><item><title>Sisters Trace Roots to Find Siblings They Never Knew About</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/sisters-trace-roots-to-find-siblings-they-never-knew-about</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:15:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/sisters-trace-roots-to-find-siblings-they-never-knew-about</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Call it an ancestral quirk — four sisters who had never gathered at the same place together, all wearing the same shade of nail polish. Good taste runs in the family, according to the four...]]></description></item><item><title>Finding Family</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/finding-family-2</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:15:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/finding-family-2</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Sisters Shirley Agan, 59, and Tory Koblick, 63, seem to move on the same wavelength. The two giggle in sync, crack the same sort of jokes and easily finish one another’s sentences....]]></description></item><item><title>Finding Family Pays Off in More Ways than One</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/finding-family-pays-off-in-more-ways-than-one</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:44:03 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/finding-family-pays-off-in-more-ways-than-one</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[David Booth's questions about his birth were finally answered in 2000, shortly after he gained access to information from his 1947 adoption file. An Illinois college professor, Booth quickly...]]></description></item><item><title>Long Lost Brother Joins Author in Print</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/long-lost-brother-joins-author-in-print</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/long-lost-brother-joins-author-in-print</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Best-selling novelist Ian McEwan's long lost brother, Oxfordshire brickie Dave Sharp, is finally having his book published - thanks to an article in the Oxford Mail. His biography Complete...]]></description></item><item><title>Baby Whose Mom Died Saving Her is Reunited with Dad</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/baby-whose-mom-died-saving-her-is-reunited-with-dad</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/baby-whose-mom-died-saving-her-is-reunited-with-dad</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Efrat Unterman, the five-month-old baby whose mother threw her out of her car window to save her during Wednesday's horrific terrorist attack on the capital's Jaffa Road, was reunited...]]></description></item><item><title>Cup of Coffee Reunites 2 Taiwan Sisters Separated Since Childhood</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/cup-of-coffee-reunites-2-taiwan-sisters-separated-since-childhood</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:32:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/cup-of-coffee-reunites-2-taiwan-sisters-separated-since-childhood</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Two Taiwan sisters separated since childhood 40 years ago were recently reunited, virtually by a cup of coffee, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Ho Mei-yun and Fang Chuang-li were born...]]></description></item><item><title>After Adoption</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/after-adoption</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:12:38 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/after-adoption</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Adoption touches the lives of one in four people in this country and its effects are often lifelong. It was like meeting a stranger. Subconsciously you know she's your mother but it was as...]]></description></item><item><title>Family Reunites 41 Years after Adoption</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-reunites-41-years-after-adoption</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:59:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-reunites-41-years-after-adoption</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Mary Herzog gazes at her daughter like she is a newborn. The way she looked four decades ago when Mary gave her up for adoption. Minutes earlier, a granddaughter had helped her apply her...]]></description></item><item><title>Rutland Duo Drops Out of Limelight</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/rutland-duo-drops-out-of-limelight</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:59:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/rutland-duo-drops-out-of-limelight</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Eight months ago, Lois Miller and Laurel Rice knew as little about each other as the rest of the world knew about them. But since their chance discovery in November that they are mother and daughter...]]></description></item><item><title>DNA Test Reveals Neither Parent is Hers</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/dna-test-reveals-neither-parent-is-hers</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:18:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/dna-test-reveals-neither-parent-is-hers</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[As kids growing up in Ecuador, Luis Carlos Correa used to taunt his brown-eyed curly-haired sister Francesca – the only one in the family who could do math – that she was adopted....]]></description></item><item><title>Siblings Reunite after 51 Years Apart</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/siblings-reunite-after-51-years-apart</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:20:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/siblings-reunite-after-51-years-apart</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[After a half a century apart, six brothers and sisters reunited Saturday at the Island Lake State Recreation area near Brighton. The Weeks children were abandoned on a couch in their Detroit house...]]></description></item><item><title>Adoptees Use DNA to Find Surname</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoptees-use-dna-to-find-surname</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:49:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoptees-use-dna-to-find-surname</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Male adoptees are using consumer DNA tests to predict the surnames carried by their biological fathers, the BBC has learned. They are using the fact that men who share a surname sometimes...]]></description></item><item><title>Author Hides Mystery in Family Tree</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/author-hides-mystery-in-family-tree</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:18:38 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/author-hides-mystery-in-family-tree</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[How is it conceivable to be mistaken for someone else; someone evil; someone whose obsession is death? How was it possible that an innocent human being could be tried...]]></description></item><item><title>Siblings are United for First Time in their Lives</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/siblings-are-united-for-first-time-in-their-lives</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:29:27 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/siblings-are-united-for-first-time-in-their-lives</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[It is a story that sounds like a film noir, with a gangster and a nightclub singer who has a secret baby she has to give up for adoption. It ends more than 50 years later, with a family...]]></description></item><item><title>‘It’s the Greatest Thing We Ever Did’; Family Created in Adoption Reunites</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/-3884</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:23:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/-3884</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The last time The Herald wrote about David and Koral Yarian, in 1985, the husband and wife were still getting used to being the adoptive parents of Korean-born sisters Emily, almost 5, and Sara, 1....]]></description></item><item><title>Driven to Reunite with Her Family</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/driven-to-reunite-with-her-family</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:20:27 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/driven-to-reunite-with-her-family</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Jisun Yang had a powerful motivation to pursue what her high school friends thought was nuts. On top of a rigorous courseload at Hopewell High, she took four more...]]></description></item><item><title>Siblings Find Biological Mother after 65 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/siblings-find-biological-mother-after-65-years</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:21:45 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/siblings-find-biological-mother-after-65-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[About 25 years ago, questions burning inside them, Ramona Barandela and Raymond Montez began searching for their biological mother. Barandela, 67, of Merrillville, and Montez, 65, of South...]]></description></item><item><title>A Journal of Homecoming</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/a-journal-of-homecoming</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:21:17 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/a-journal-of-homecoming</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Parents often tell their children bedtime stories. Mine contained stories about the day my birth mother handed me over to my mom and my dad, telling them to take care of me in the United States....]]></description></item><item><title>Army Vet from LI, Back Home, Reunites with Her Son</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/army-vet-from-li-back-home-reunites-with-her-son</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:12:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/army-vet-from-li-back-home-reunites-with-her-son</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[For more than a year, Capt. Donna Beaulieu traveled throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, helping the U.S. Army account for spending. Yesterday, the Central Islip native returned home to a new task...]]></description></item><item><title>Josef Fritzl's Oldest Child Reunited with Family</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/josef-fritzls-oldest-child-reunited-with-family</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:54:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/josef-fritzls-oldest-child-reunited-with-family</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The oldest child Josef Fritzl fathered by his own daughter is on the road to a full recovery after being reunited with her family – and the first thing she has asked for after a lifetime...]]></description></item><item><title>Brother and Sister Find Their Biological Mom</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/brother-and-sister-find-their-biological-mom</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:06:57 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/brother-and-sister-find-their-biological-mom</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[For years Ramona Barandela wondered why people told her she looked like her mother --then Barandela met her mother for the first time last month. Barandela, of Merrillville, and Robert Momtez...]]></description></item><item><title>Utah's Nobel Prize-Winning Capecchi Meets Long-Lost Sister</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/utahs-nobel-prize-winning-capecchi-meets-long-lost-sister</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:28:57 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/utahs-nobel-prize-winning-capecchi-meets-long-lost-sister</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Winning the highest honor in science opened some unexpected doors into Mario Capecchi's distant and elusive past, a childhood shaped by war and wandering. Last month during a trip to his native Italy...]]></description></item><item><title>Mother's Search for Adopted Son</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mothers-search-for-adopted-son</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:26:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mothers-search-for-adopted-son</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A great-grandmother who was made to give her baby up for adoption 50 years ago is appealing for information to reunite her with her son. Janet Duffield, now 66, of Granville Street, Hessle...]]></description></item><item><title>Texas Order Slows B.C. Family's Reunion</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/texas-order-slows-bc-familys-reunion</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:46:15 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/texas-order-slows-bc-familys-reunion</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A Texas court order paving the way for hundreds of children to be reunited with their parents could hamper the reunion of a British Columbia girl with her family, says a lawyer...]]></description></item><item><title>Bathurst Woman Meets Long Lost Brother for the Very First Time</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/bathurst-woman-meets-long-lost-brother-for-the-very-first-time</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:03:21 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/bathurst-woman-meets-long-lost-brother-for-the-very-first-time</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[When Anne Arseneau returned to her Bathurst home from Sunday church earlier this winter, her husband Gerry said he had some important news to tell her. Gerry asked her to sit down and...]]></description></item><item><title>Polygamist Sect Families Reunited with Kids</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/polygamist-sect-families-reunited-with-kids</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:50:52 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/polygamist-sect-families-reunited-with-kids</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Jubilation among members of a polygamist sect gave way to wariness Monday as parents complied with a judge's terms for regaining their children while a sect spokesman angrily accused...]]></description></item><item><title>Drummer on a Quest to Uncover His Past</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/drummer-on-a-quest-to-uncover-his-past</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:09:08 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/drummer-on-a-quest-to-uncover-his-past</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Millions of people are fans of John Harman Dittrich. He's drummer and a lead singer for the country rock band Restless Heart, which has put songs like "When She Cries," "I'll Still Be Loving...]]></description></item><item><title>Mother, Daughter Reunited after Decades-Long Search</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-daughter-reunited-after-decades-long-search</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:42:23 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-daughter-reunited-after-decades-long-search</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Stephanie Bursey was born April 14, 1966 in the St. Fernando Valley. Her mother, Diane Good, who was 21 when she got pregnant, decided to give up Stephanie for adoption. The baby...]]></description></item><item><title>Spanish Twins Separated at Birth by Mistake are United by Chance</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/spanish-twins-separated-at-birth-by-mistake-are-united-by-chance</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:14:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/spanish-twins-separated-at-birth-by-mistake-are-united-by-chance</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[They were unaware of each other's existence for nearly 30 years, until their uncanny likeness caused a misunderstanding at a clothes shop that led to their reunion. Now one of the identical twins...]]></description></item><item><title>Reunion in Edmonton</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/reunion-in-edmonton-1</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 14:41:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/reunion-in-edmonton-1</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A reunion in Edmonton with a long-lost nephew has made a local family that branched from 15 siblings finally feel complete. "We come from a very large family," said Rose Herman, 44....]]></description></item><item><title>Completing the Family Circle</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/completing-the-family-circle</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 14:25:46 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/completing-the-family-circle</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[At 6 foot 5 inches, Daryl Robinson is a big man. With his newfound birth family, he now has a large family to match his considerable size — and room in his heart for all of them....]]></description></item><item><title>Reunited With Mother After 18 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/reunited-with-mother-after-18-years</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:17:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/reunited-with-mother-after-18-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[They don't even speak the same language as their mother.  She lives in Honduras. They live in Idaho Falls. For 18 years the Bailey twins, of Idaho Falls, lived their lives without knowing...]]></description></item><item><title>96-Year-Old Woman Learns of Her Birth Mother</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/96-year-old-woman-learns-of-her-birth-mother</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:06:14 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/96-year-old-woman-learns-of-her-birth-mother</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[After years of searching, Ernestine Morey has finally seen her mother's face. The 96-year-old Corner Brook woman has found information on her birth mother - including an old photograph - and in...]]></description></item><item><title>12 Sect Children Reunited With Parents</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/12-sect-children-reunited-with-parents</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:18:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/12-sect-children-reunited-with-parents</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A dozen children removed from the polygamist Yearning for Zion Ranch have been reunited with their parents while the Texas Supreme Court decides their fate - and that of more than four...]]></description></item><item><title>Help Siblings Reunite at Camp</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/help-siblings-reunite-at-camp</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:10:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/help-siblings-reunite-at-camp</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Since 1995, Southern Nevada foster children have been reunited with their siblings annually at Camp To Belong, a nationally recognized summer camp program. This year brothers and sisters...]]></description></item><item><title>Woman Searches for Birth Mother after Receiving Unsigned Letter</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/woman-searches-for-birth-mother-after-receiving-unsigned-letter</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:03:48 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/woman-searches-for-birth-mother-after-receiving-unsigned-letter</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Kris Box can't remember ever being told that she was adopted. "I've always known," she said. It wouldn't have been easy to deny. Family photos show a tall, blonde girl sticking out...]]></description></item><item><title>Tracing an Adoptee's Family Tree</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/tracing-an-adoptees-family-tree</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 14:33:34 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/tracing-an-adoptees-family-tree</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A new Ontario law will soon give adult adoptees and birth parents access to information that is currently sealed in their adoption records. For years, adoptees and birth parents have worked to...]]></description></item><item><title>Separated: Siblings Reunite after 30 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/separated-siblings-reunite-after-30-years</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:42:34 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/separated-siblings-reunite-after-30-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Christmases, Thanksgivings and other family holidays will never be the same again for Ralph Glessner. Nor for Mary Fedorenko. They now have each other - and plenty of new family members, too....]]></description></item><item><title>Denison Woman Reunited with Mom after 50 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/denison-woman-reunited-with-mom-after-50-years</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 14:53:23 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/denison-woman-reunited-with-mom-after-50-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, we told you about a man who was adopted in Germany by an American family and brought back to the states. And after fifty years, his birth mother found him. Now his sister...]]></description></item><item><title>Family United</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-united</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-united</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[On a frosty winter day in 1980, a petite, unmarried teenager with dark brown hair gave birth to a baby girl at St. John's Hospital. As she held her daughter for only an hour...]]></description></item><item><title>Local Woman Meets Mother For First Time</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/local-woman-meets-mother-for-first-time</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:12:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/local-woman-meets-mother-for-first-time</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Mother's Day 1998 had special meaning for a local woman, given up for adoption at birth. Local 12 was there for the emotional, tear-filled reunion between Missy West and...]]></description></item><item><title>Adoption in DeWitt Reunites Four Siblings</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoption-in-dewitt-reunites-four-siblings</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoption-in-dewitt-reunites-four-siblings</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Lou “Boo” Cox grew up in a family of seven, so he thought he knew what it took to run a large household before he and his wife adopted four siblings. But the 6-foot-4, 225-pound former...]]></description></item><item><title>Family Reunited after 50 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-reunited-after-50-years</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:07:58 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-reunited-after-50-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Norris City man meets brother, mother he thought was dead. Sunday, May 11, 2008 will be a very special Mother's Day for Roman "Ray" Saponka of rural Norris City....]]></description></item><item><title>Brothers Reunited Through Twist of Fate</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/brothers-reunited-through-twist-of-fate</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 14:49:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/brothers-reunited-through-twist-of-fate</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[An Ocala couple adopted two brothers four years apart, but they had to locate one of them first. It’s a story full of several amazing twists of fate. Lance and Michael Potenza are hanging out...]]></description></item><item><title>Scituate Man Finds Long-Lost Relatives</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/scituate-man-finds-long-lost-relatives</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 14:42:08 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/scituate-man-finds-long-lost-relatives</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Wally Ely’s discovery started with two faded letters in his late father’s dresser drawer. But the real kicker was a surprise phone call years later. “I think I’m related to you,” a young man...]]></description></item><item><title>Adoptive Parents Reunite Separated Siblings</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoptive-parents-reunite-separated-siblings</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:52:19 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoptive-parents-reunite-separated-siblings</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Chris and Kelli Potenza have two sons now, and some say Michael and Lance have grown into the spitting images of their parents. "A lot of people say Michael looks like me and Lance...]]></description></item><item><title>Elm Valley Woman Finds Birth Parents</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/elm-valley-woman-finds-birth-parents</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:53:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/elm-valley-woman-finds-birth-parents</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Through an amazing chain of events, family members who had never met were united for the first time, all because of a T-shirt. The story of how Penny Bivens from Elm Valley was reunited with her birth...]]></description></item><item><title>Rutland Mother and Daughter Reunited</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/rutland-mother-and-daughter-reunited</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:52:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/rutland-mother-and-daughter-reunited</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Laurel Rice has been going to the Avanti Salon for seven years, never expecting more than a haircut. But it was here she found something she had been looking for her whole life...]]></description></item><item><title>John Doe No. 73 Hunts for Birth Parents</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/john-doe-no-73-hunts-for-birth-parents</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:38:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/john-doe-no-73-hunts-for-birth-parents</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[He was just a few days old when someone put him in a shopping bag and abandoned him in a women's restroom at a Crowley's department store nearly half a century ago....]]></description></item><item><title>Sailor's Secret Taken to a Watery Grave</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/sailors-secret-taken-to-a-watery-grave</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:45:04 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/sailors-secret-taken-to-a-watery-grave</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[When Robert John Kennedy went to his grave with the other 644 crew of HMAS Sydney in November 1941 he took with him the key to a secret which was to remain hidden from his family for more than...]]></description></item><item><title>Mother Finds Missing Son after 50 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-finds-missing-son-after-50-years</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:28:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-finds-missing-son-after-50-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A woman in Germany has been looking for her son since he was taken from her 50 years ago. Now she's finally found him in Denison, Texas. But for most of those years, she never even knew he'd been adopted....]]></description></item><item><title>Man's Search for 'Lost' Sister</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mans-search-for-lost-sister</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:06:45 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mans-search-for-lost-sister</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Peter Healey, 60, who lives in Neath, is making an appeal for his adopted sister to make contact. His mother, Mona Pugh Evans, became pregnant at a young age and was sent to stay...]]></description></item><item><title>Eyes North to Family</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/eyes-north-to-family</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:17:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/eyes-north-to-family</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[She has travelled Canada and the U.S. from north to south and east to west. Her childhood included a decade growing up in St. Thomas. But at age 42 and now a mother living in California...]]></description></item><item><title>At 68, Adoptee Still Putting Pieces Together</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/at-68-adoptee-still-putting-pieces-together</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:08:39 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/at-68-adoptee-still-putting-pieces-together</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[He entered her life via cell phone while she was on the bread aisle of the Wal-Mart in Pearl. "I'm your brother," said the voice on the other end. Half brother, to be exact. Same daddy....]]></description></item><item><title>Reunited after 50 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/reunited-after-50-years</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:55:58 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/reunited-after-50-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[It took a search spanning 50 years – but Margaret Matthews will now have the family reunion she dreamed of. Margaret, her brother and her sister all grew up without...]]></description></item><item><title>Where is My Mum?</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/where-is-my-mum</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:49:54 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/where-is-my-mum</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A woman who was abandoned on a common as a baby more than 60 years ago is searching for answers about her family and those who helped her. Mary Crabb discovered the truth about her birth after...]]></description></item><item><title>Adopted Sisters Meet for the First Time</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-sisters-meet-for-the-first-time</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:34:26 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-sisters-meet-for-the-first-time</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Theresa McKee grew up in Westmount. Just a few miles away, her biological sister Dawn Hayes grew up on Meadows Road in Sydney Forks.<br />The sisters, who were put up for adoption...]]></description></item><item><title>Mother, Son Reunited after Boy, Dad Found</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-son-reunited-after-boy-dad-found</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-son-reunited-after-boy-dad-found</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A New Orleans mother and her 10-year-old son were reunited on Saturday in Corpus Christi after two years apart. Local authorities found the boy on Thursday with his father, 29-year-old Emilio Pla, who...]]></description></item><item><title>Long, Complex Trail to Finding Adoptees' Parents</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/long-complex-trail-to-finding-adoptees-parents</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:04:45 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/long-complex-trail-to-finding-adoptees-parents</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The raffle was over, the drinks were flowing and the gray-haired crowd at VFW Post 9399 was in a mood to party when David Serby approached the stage. A lanky South Pasadena singer-songwriter...]]></description></item><item><title>Adopted Man Seeks Biological Parents</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-man-seeks-biological-parents</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:51:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-man-seeks-biological-parents</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Kelvin Eaker likes to imagine what it will be like when he meets his mother for the first time. The 34-year-old has gone through many scenarios in his head. In one...]]></description></item><item><title>Adopted Man Finds His Family</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-man-finds-his-family</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:23:52 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-man-finds-his-family</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The party was going well. The drinks were flowing. The fajitas were delicious. Then Kevin Sampson saw his older brother do "the pancake dance." It was ridiculous. It was hilarious....]]></description></item><item><title>Searching for His Roots</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/searching-for-his-roots</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:35:46 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/searching-for-his-roots</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[It wasn't until Lawrence Weeks held his newborn daughter in his arms one cold day in February 1968 that he had a serious interest in locating his birth parents. "I was sitting in the car in a...]]></description></item><item><title>Family Reunites after Nearly Three Decades Apart</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-reunites-after-nearly-three-decades-apart</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:23:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-reunites-after-nearly-three-decades-apart</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[After 29 years of searching for one another, the Miller family reunited Monday night. In 1979, Melody Miller broke from a bad relationship in New Jersey, but the decision cost her all...]]></description></item><item><title>Parents Get Back 'Safe Haven' Baby</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/parents-get-back-safe-haven-baby</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/parents-get-back-safe-haven-baby</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A baby girl dropped off at EMH Regional Medical Center on Super Bowl Sunday under the state’s Safe Haven law is back home with her parents. County Juvenile Magistrate James...]]></description></item><item><title>Exhibition Shows Personal Narrative</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/exhibition-shows-personal-narrative</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:07:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/exhibition-shows-personal-narrative</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A Korean volunteer and interpreter for G.O.A.'L who helps to translate and interpret for adoptees searching for their birth families on a KBS show called ``I Miss You,'' and a long-time...]]></description></item><item><title>Dad Searches for a Daughter He’s Never Met</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/-2961</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:39:03 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/-2961</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The Saturday, March 15, edition of the Norwich (England) Evening News contained a story about a man who is searching for a daughter he has never seen. The man is Jim Helm of Springfield....]]></description></item><item><title>Life on Both Sides of the Pond</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/life-on-both-sides-of-the-pond</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:02:52 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/life-on-both-sides-of-the-pond</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[American-born, English-bred writer Alison Larkin didn't know much about her birth parents as a child. The British family that adopted her in Washington did tell...]]></description></item><item><title>A Son Spins a Song of Reunion</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/a-son-spins-a-song-of-reunion</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/a-son-spins-a-song-of-reunion</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The raffle was over, the drinks were flowing and the gray-haired crowd at VFW Post 9399 was in a mood to party when David Serby approached the stage. A lanky South Pasadena singer-songwriter...]]></description></item><item><title>Finally Family</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/finally-family</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:47:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/finally-family</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[All her life Iris Higgins dreamt about one day meeting her mother. Three weeks ago that dream finally came true. The Mail first met the 67-year-old in November last year. Only days before she...]]></description></item><item><title>Adopted Son, Mom Search for Bio Dad</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-son-mom-search-for-bio-dad</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:45:01 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adopted-son-mom-search-for-bio-dad</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A mother and the son with whom she reunited after giving him up for adoption four decades ago are now searching for the missing dad to complete their family....]]></description></item><item><title>4 Years On, Boy Reunited with Family</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/4-years-on-boy-reunited-with-family</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:37:53 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/4-years-on-boy-reunited-with-family</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A two-year-old boy goes missing while playing... is spotted by the police and handed over to a child welfare organisation... finds a new home as another family adopts him... his biological parents...]]></description></item><item><title>'Finder' is Accused of Stealing Adoption Records</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/finder-is-accused-of-stealing-adoption-records</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:30:10 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/finder-is-accused-of-stealing-adoption-records</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[An Ogden woman who has apparently made a career of finding and reuniting adopted children with their birth parents now stands accused of pilfering hundreds of sealed adoption records...]]></description></item><item><title>Mother and Son Reunited After 37 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-and-son-reunited-after-37-years</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:05:48 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-and-son-reunited-after-37-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Minden resident Georgia Schroth had her only child, a son, on Nov. 8, 1971. A single mom, she struggled to keep him for two months, but with no money, no family support and just one steadfast...]]></description></item><item><title>In Search of a Sibling</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/in-search-of-a-sibling</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:06:49 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/in-search-of-a-sibling</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Susan Kelly has spent 18 years trying to put together a puzzle. The last piece, the one that’s most important to her, has a fragile, tenuous connection to Wichita Falls. Kelly has been on an...]]></description></item><item><title>Heart and Seoul: Adoptee Finds His Birth Family</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/heart-and-seoul-adoptee-finds-his-birth-family</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:43:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/heart-and-seoul-adoptee-finds-his-birth-family</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[For the past 24 years the question "Who am I?" has never really been a problem. My response, quite simply, is that my name is Matthew Shampine, I am from South Jersey, I graduated from TCNJ and I...]]></description></item><item><title>Life-Changing Magic Can Happen When You Get and Stay in Touch</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/life-changing-magic-can-happen-when-you-get-and-stay-in-touch</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:09:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/life-changing-magic-can-happen-when-you-get-and-stay-in-touch</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Positive and life-changing things can happen when you are open to getting and staying in touch with people you've known. Just ask Brenda Stokes how this simple action enriched her life....]]></description></item><item><title>Missing Brother Search Continues</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/missing-brother-search-continues</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:59:10 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/missing-brother-search-continues</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A transcontinental mission to find a missing brother has revealed clues in Temple, and a trail that leads to Wichita Falls. Susan Kelly of Dublin, Ireland, is attempting to locate her younger...]]></description></item><item><title>Biological Connection</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/biological-connection</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:29:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/biological-connection</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Toni Jones and Ryan Peedin don’t share the same last name. They can’t reflect on childhood memories of Ryan making As, playing sports or getting married. But Toni and Ryan have the same...]]></description></item><item><title>Adoptee, 79, Ventures Online to Find Blood Relatives</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoptee-79-ventures-online-to-find-blood-relatives</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:15:49 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoptee-79-ventures-online-to-find-blood-relatives</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Micki Dietsch is so prolific with her paintbrush that she bought a computer to sell her paintings on eBay. The Park City woman still hasn't listed her landscapes, but her laptop has...]]></description></item><item><title>Mother Reunited with Her Runaway Daughter</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-reunited-with-her-runaway-daughter</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:45:54 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/mother-reunited-with-her-runaway-daughter</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Betty Brown spent most of the month looking for her daughter. She drove around town, put up more than 250 fliers, and knocked on doors hoping to find her 15-year-old daughter. 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Although Cejka doesn't know much about her biological family...]]></description></item><item><title>Birth Mother, Twins Reunite after 29 Years</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/birth-mother-twins-reunite-after-29-years</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:29:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/birth-mother-twins-reunite-after-29-years</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Mildred Cheatham stood in her backyard Saturday, half-listening as her daughter Amanda talked on her cell phone, giving directions to the house. Tears poured down her cheeks. The twins were...]]></description></item><item><title>Siblings Split By Adoption Reunited after Five Decades</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/siblings-split-by-adoption-reunited-after-five-decades</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:20:08 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/siblings-split-by-adoption-reunited-after-five-decades</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Two sisters were separated by adoption fifty years ago, but even this long amount of time could not keep them separated forever. Chu Mei-erh, 51, and Lin Mei-chen, 56, sisters by birth...]]></description></item><item><title>MySpace 'Shocker' Reconnects Sisters</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/myspace-shocker-reconnects-sisters</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:56:17 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/myspace-shocker-reconnects-sisters</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[There are stories of meetings via the Internet that end badly, but a MySpace encounter ended well for a Stuart girl and her sister. Two weeks ago, Shelly Dondorfer, 18, of the 3100 block...]]></description></item><item><title>Blog Reunites Adopted ‘Damsel in Distress’ with Real Mom</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/-2513</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:29:48 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/-2513</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[After 28 years, public relations executive Vicky Ras was ready to give up the search for her biological mother. But last week, a comment in her blog entry “Finding Mom” from a certain...]]></description></item><item><title>Gran's Joy at Reunion with Her 'Lost' Family</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/grans-joy-at-reunion-with-her-lost-family</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:22:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/grans-joy-at-reunion-with-her-lost-family</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A grandmother is to be united with the family she never knew she had for more than 60 years. Barbara Mobbs will have more than her birthday to celebrate in April. 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It was a reunion 45 years in the making....]]></description></item><item><title>34 Years Later, Korean Parents Reunite with Children in Minnesota</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/34-years-later-korean-parents-reunite-with-children-in-minnesota</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:16:23 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/34-years-later-korean-parents-reunite-with-children-in-minnesota</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Todd Moir and Jenny Joseph were given up for adoption nearly 34 years ago. And in the February of 2008, they were given the opportunity to reunite with the birth parents they never knew....]]></description></item><item><title>Searching for Roots</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/searching-for-roots</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:36:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/searching-for-roots</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Gita Ramaswamy (54) is not just someone who rebelled against her caste (Brahminism), against the state (she’s a former naxalite) and against the feudals of Telangana...]]></description></item><item><title>Twins’ Life Stories Better than Lifetime</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/-2404</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:32:39 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/-2404</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Elyse Schein’s life reminds me of the type of movie that plays on women’s networks on lazy, rainy Saturday afternoons. 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