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( Former Malakoff Resident Cara Taylor continues with the story of her Internet search for her birth family.)

The first time I met my brother Jason and my Aunt Joyce was Valentine’s Day, 2014. Aunt Joyce took one look at me and said, “Yep, you’re one of us.” I laughed, not sure how to take it, hoping it was good. Then she said, “If you know what’s good for you, you will run!” My curiosity was certainly piqued at this point. We sat down and looked over pictures that I had brought with me and talked about other family members. I don’t think they wanted to scare me too much but they told me that “Crazy” ran deep in our family. Well, knowing myself, I could believe that.

I was able to find my brother Allen by help of the internet also. Allen was the baby boy that my birth mother, Dianna, had given up the year after they gave me up. About 12 years before when they were expecting their twins, Allen’s wife Dana began an Internet search for our birth parents and found them! Dana had spoken at length with Dianna, our birth mother, and had had a very brief conversation with Jack, our birth father. Neither parent admitted any part of the story was true. However, after Dianna’s death, Jack’s memory seems to have improved a little. He told other family members he vaguely remembered giving up a son in 1966. He has since stated he has no memory of my birth by the way. What a difference that one year made, huh? Continue reading “Around Town: Cara Taylor’s Story, Part II”

(PART I: This week’s guest columnist is Cara Del Taylor, former Cedar Lake Nursing Home Activity Director. She is picking up from the column I wrote about her two weeks ago. She hopes her story might help others looking for their birth family.)

Thank you Loretta, for letting me tell “the rest of the story”… I won’t be able to get it all in today but I promise that the story is incredibly amazing and hopefully I will be invited to continue as a guest columnist for a couple of weeks more. Week before last she told you about me finding my brother, Jason Lloyd. To fill you all in on a little background, I had searched for my birth family for my entire adult life. Not because I wasn’t happy with the family who adopted me with the help of a lawyer from family law vancouver, because I was, and I loved them very much. I just had a longing to find out “who I was”. Continue reading “Around the Town: Story of Cara Del Taylor”