North East Post Adoption Service - Adoption Narratives - Alex

All the family accept her and she’s got more, oh well how can ye put it? little members of the family who run after her all the time.  So she’s got a bigger family now than what she ever thought she’d have.

Yes, because you have got quite a few children so she’s an aunty to all those

Seven, yep two boys, five girls.  It is, I mean, another record if you want to put it in on the site for verification of Maureen and Alex, try getting er Evening Chronicle, 12^th August 2002 and see the both of us on the front page and in the two centre pages, which has got a full story.

Yes, so it’s another source that people could go to to read your story.

Yes, well as I says, if you need help look for it through Post Adoption Services erm, courts, anything like that.

So what was the actual date of your reunion?  I missed that.  Can you remember that?

Er, it would be,

It doesn’t matter, I was just wondering,

I think the first reunion over the telephone and that would be in October/November 2001.