Exclusive Feature Serial on www.thisisUll.com Part Two - Where Are All Our Mothers: - Adopted in Hull By Diane Prev   Part One.

One day, a very strange thing happened. Almost an answer to my prayers. I was listening to a programme on radio Humberside about what to do and where to go if you need some answers to your questions if you are adopted. At this point my adoptive mother had died, so I felt more like I could do this and spare her feelings. Adopted children feel such strong responsibilities towards their rearing loved ones. In those days you had to seek out a counsellor to talk you through the procedure and also go digging around for information that was long time buried.

I always will remember how really nervous I felt and at any moment I would run out, with my hands over my ears, shouting 'I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!

What he told me made me weep for days - he told me my real name. It isn't until that very moment that all of it becomes very real indeed. My whole identity had vanished completely. He also told me my birth mother's name, who sadly had died (strangely enough) the same year as my other mum. He also said I had 2 sisters and 1 brother. He said it was not up to me to find them as they probably wouldn't know that I existed.

So off I went absolutely dazed and confused and still in a no-name land. He never contacted me again and I was glad in a funny sort of way because at that moment in time I couldn't take any more. As the years went by I still found it difficult to accept that I was called something else. Then, out of the blue, I found someone who wanted to listen. By this time my beautiful father had died and I had a family of my own. This person encouraged me to take my information further and to find my true blood so I would have a proper family tree to offer to my kids and at last I could feel complete.

I got on to it step by step and ended up in a place run by the social services called Gleneagles in Hull. They were very helpful and kind, they gave me a wad of documents that made me smile, I felt at last I was getting somewhere and maybe I was old enough to handle all this now. Inside this mass of papers were many unanswered questions that completely amazed me. My mother sounded lovely and it wasn't that she didn't want me as I had dreaded, but her circumstances in those awful sixties did so prevent her from keeping me.

She did love me and I know she thought of me because before she let me go into another mothers arms she gave me something so very precious for the rest of my life; MY NAME.

Continued on www.thisisull.com...... Part Three - Adopted in Hull.

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