My grandmother (adoptive father's mother) told me: My parents were in a severe car accident. My father was killed. My mother was paralyzed. Her mother could not care for me, so I was sent to an orphanage. I was adopted.
My adoptive mother told me: My parents were married, "but not to each other". My father was a Ukrainian marine-biologist, and was visiting Newfoundland where my mother lived. She had a drinking problem and was always in bars. I was the result. Since abortion was not legal, I was born and put in an orphanage where I was severely neglected. Had I not been adopted, my head would have remained flat from neglect, and I would have become grossly retarded. My adoptive mother went into great detail how she saved me.
According to social-service reports, neither story was remotely accurate.
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My grandmother (adoptive father's mother) told me: My parents were in a severe car accident. My father was killed. My mother was paralyzed. Her mother could not care for me, so I was sent to an orphanage. I was adopted.
My adoptive mother told me: My parents were married, "but not to each other". My father was a Ukrainian marine-biologist, and was visiting Newfoundland where my mother lived. She had a drinking problem and was always in bars. I was the result. Since abortion was not legal, I was born and put in an orphanage where I was severely neglected. Had I not been adopted, my head would have remained flat from neglect, and I would have become grossly retarded. My adoptive mother went into great detail how she saved me.
According to social-service reports, neither story was remotely accurate.