Help Me Meet My Father
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Hi Everyone,
My name is Donna and ever since I was a little girl I have never known my father.
I remember growing up I would nag and nag at my mother to ask her where he was, what his name was, where he was from, did he know about me and she could never give me answers; only his name.
Throughout my whole life I have felt that I never belonged anywhere, didn’t know my background and found myself wondering if I would ever get to meet this faceless man that I knew nothing about.
I have been researching for years how to find him and at times have felt like giving up feeling like it was an impossible task and that he had disappeared from planet earth.
Before my mother died a few years back I asked her again if she knew anything else at all that she could tell me and she mentioned his fathers name and that he was in the navy.
After years and years of trawling the internet, coming to dead ends and false promises from names that were the same as his but wasn’t actually him I finally hit the jackpot at the beginning of this year when I found an obituarie in the name of my “grandfather”. I then located through this a family tree which matched the only details I had of my fathers family and I managed to finally trace him after many emails to various family members and a lot of heartache !!
I emailed my “father” and told him why I was searching for him and he had never been made aware of me. Over a few day we spent some time emailing each other, this man at the other side of the world who could potentially have all of the answers I have been searching for my whole life.
We did a DNA test and after a long wait it was confirmed that he was in fact my biological father.
I am 47 years old and my father is 70, I live in the UK and he lives in New Zealand. I know that there is no possible way I will ever be able to afford to travel there and get to meet him face to face and try and build a relationship with him so I am asking for peoples help in uniting me with the man that I have been waiting to meet for 47 years.
It's hard to explain how I feel inside, never growing up knowing where I came from, finally I have my closure but my journey hasn't ended till I see and hug my father for the very 1st time,i was reluctant to do a campain because I didn't want ppl to judge me, it's for no financial gain other than a ticket to visit my father.
Please can anyone help me to achieve my goal of getting to meet my father.
My name is Donna and ever since I was a little girl I have never known my father.
I remember growing up I would nag and nag at my mother to ask her where he was, what his name was, where he was from, did he know about me and she could never give me answers; only his name.
Throughout my whole life I have felt that I never belonged anywhere, didn’t know my background and found myself wondering if I would ever get to meet this faceless man that I knew nothing about.
I have been researching for years how to find him and at times have felt like giving up feeling like it was an impossible task and that he had disappeared from planet earth.
Before my mother died a few years back I asked her again if she knew anything else at all that she could tell me and she mentioned his fathers name and that he was in the navy.
After years and years of trawling the internet, coming to dead ends and false promises from names that were the same as his but wasn’t actually him I finally hit the jackpot at the beginning of this year when I found an obituarie in the name of my “grandfather”. I then located through this a family tree which matched the only details I had of my fathers family and I managed to finally trace him after many emails to various family members and a lot of heartache !!
I emailed my “father” and told him why I was searching for him and he had never been made aware of me. Over a few day we spent some time emailing each other, this man at the other side of the world who could potentially have all of the answers I have been searching for my whole life.
We did a DNA test and after a long wait it was confirmed that he was in fact my biological father.
I am 47 years old and my father is 70, I live in the UK and he lives in New Zealand. I know that there is no possible way I will ever be able to afford to travel there and get to meet him face to face and try and build a relationship with him so I am asking for peoples help in uniting me with the man that I have been waiting to meet for 47 years.
It's hard to explain how I feel inside, never growing up knowing where I came from, finally I have my closure but my journey hasn't ended till I see and hug my father for the very 1st time,i was reluctant to do a campain because I didn't want ppl to judge me, it's for no financial gain other than a ticket to visit my father.
Please can anyone help me to achieve my goal of getting to meet my father.
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Donna Marie
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