Peace of Mind - at Last!

Twenty-seven years of living with a multitude of feelings ranging from curiosity, guilt, shame and a fathers feelings for a son finally concluded with a reunion. I would lay awake nights living with these feelings and I hoped one day I could put them to rest. My son was given up for adoption at birth, at the time it was a great way for a young teenage father to get out of a jam. Little did I know how this was going to bother me in the many years ahead.

I married and had a family but I never forgot about my first son and I never kept it a secret from my family. As the years passed, I felt it would be wrong to search for my adopted son because it would probably upset his life. I watched the years go by and when he turned 18 years old I had to find him and unburden myself. The task of finding him was more than I imagined, phone calls and writing letters only brought me more frustration.

The older I got the more important it became to find my son and bring this heavy burden that I was living with to a closure. I searched the Internet and found ICARE, when Mary offered to help I had new hope and said, yes. It only took her about a week and she had good news. I was so happy that whole week thinking of the possibility of finding my son that I could not think of anything else.

After 27 years we now talk over the telephone, have met in person and are beginning to share our lives. It could not have turned out any better. I have son and he has a dad.

   - Dan Watson