My Adoption Story and Origin Search

She finds her son

In 1996, my mother, Margarita, received a letter from a cousin who lived in Miami, Florida. He’s including copies of a letter he received from the department of social services of Quebec. The letter was an attempt to find Gustavo de Jesús. because, his mother at birth was interested in establishing contact. He included the original letter and his answer to social services where he indicates not to be aware if Gustavo knows that he was adopted and was forwarding us this letter so that we could make a decision. After my mom read the letter, she handed it to me for me to read. What a surprise for both of us! All of a sudden what my mom talked all our lives about was becoming a reality. What would I do if one day my birth mother would appear?

When I finished reading the letter I ran to the phone and called the number that appeared in the social services letter, but it was late and they had already closed for the day. The next day I called again and spoke to the lady who was handling the case. This lady asks me why I hadn’t tried to find my mother. “My mother is the one next to me” was my reply. All my life I had known that I had been adopted, I saw it as something natural and consider my adoptive parents as my true parents. They spent long nights when I was sick, cared about my future and gave me an education and more love than any other parent could give. They were parents by choice. The lady asked me if I wanted to establish communication with my birth mother and I answered yes. A day was set for a call with a translator. Three days later the call is made. I found out that who my biological mother was, Réjeanne Gagne Lapointe (1939 – 2019). Through the translator, we both ask questions and manage to hear our voices for the first time and found out that I had two half-brothers. The call ends with me offering my house if she wanted to visit me. Three weeks later Réjeanne came to meet me in Puerto Rico.