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<\/p>\n“So, I turned 65 years old with no children but I turned 68 with two children and three grandchildren.”<\/p>\n
In the early 2000’s my brother died in a farming accident and over the next couple of years, I lost my Mom and Dad.\u00a0 On the way home from my father’s funeral I realized I was an orphan.\u00a0 For the next 14 years I felt like I was alone.\u00a0 I had no children from my marriage.<\/p>\n
The first weekend of October 2017 I received a letter. It stated the lady who wrote the letter was my daughter.\u00a0 Her husband had given her and her parents Ancestry memberships for Christmas in 2016. We connected and I met her and her parents New Years, 2016.\u00a0 So, I have a daughter and grandson.\u00a0 Incredible.<\/p>\n
Last year, during the pandemic, I was watching a useless movie and became bored, so I decided to check my email.\u00a0 I had a notification from 23andMe–the email said–“It seems we are inextricably linked.”\u00a0 23andMe has a new function to identify relatives and we share 48.5 percent of DNA and he is my biological son.<\/p>\n
When I was a freshman in Medical School I was invited by the Dean to participate in a new fertility clinic at UAB.\u00a0 Participants in the program, both couples and donors were instructed that no one would ever know. Jerry Harrison, M.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “So, I turned 65 years old with no children but I turned 68 with two children and three grandchildren.” In the early 2000’s my brother died in a farming accident and over the next couple of years, I lost my Mom and Dad.\u00a0 On the way home from my father’s funeral I realized I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17369,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362\/revisions\/17369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/12119-149-300x200.jpg\")
\u00a0<\/span>They did not anticipate the Human Genome project or DNA technology.\u00a0 So, I turned 65 years old with no children but I turned 68 with two children and three grandchildren.\u00a0 God is good and takes care of us.<\/p>\n