Finding My Birth Family - A Story of Adoption Search and Reunion - Part 2
To Meet Him or Not? After our visit, I began to think a lot about my birth father. Betty didn't have much to say about him, but her best friend, Cathleen, said some things that made me want to meet him.
The truth is that my obsessive/compulsive behavior got the better of me and, using the Internet, I found an address and phone number for a Michael Anderson in Lawtey, Florida. Now I wanted to meet him.
I located what I thought to be his address and phone number around the holidays. I should tell you that Lawtey is kind of a scary place. Scary the way that "Deliverance" is scary. So, the thought that I could be the offspring of someone living there was terrifying! To tackle my fears and to see what kind of house, trailer, car he may reside in, my housemate Lauren and I took a little road trip to Lawtey.
Road planning was obviously not used when the streets of Lawtey were planned and paved, so we spent quite a while just trying to find the
street where he lived. What we found were two driveways (without numbers) that could possibly be where his lived. The first driveway had a locked gate and it looked like it led into the woods. The second driveway has no gate, so that's the one we chose. Oh boy, was that wrong choice! It was a curvy driveway, and when we reached the last curve, we came upon abandoned cars and a couple of shacks in complete disrepair... not to mention some rabid lookin' junkyard type dogs. We backed up quickly. I prayed that wasn't his house!
Needless to say, I put the searching on hold for a little while. It wasn't until after Betty's visit that I got serious about meeting with him again.
Betty left on a Saturday, and I mailed my letter to him the following Friday.
PART TWO: REUNIONPage 4: First ContactPage 5: To Meet Him or Not?Page 6: Mistur AndirsunPage 7: Was It Worth It?PART ONE: SEARCHPage 1: Getting Started Page 2: Stepping Out on the WebPage 3: Finding a Woman Named Jones
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