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Today, a longtime friend Author Cindy Kirk shares a special story of a mother’s love. Here’s Cindy:<\/p>\n

“From the time I was a little girl, I always wondered if I was adopted. I didn\u2019t resemble either of my parents or any of my relatives. Whenever I asked I was told that I looked like my father\u2019s mother who had died before I was born.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t find out until after I was an adult and my mother had died, that I was a product of donor insemination. (I was contacted by a \u201csibling\u201d with whom I share the same donor father) Thankfully before I said anything to the father I\u2019d grown up with, I discovered that my mother may not have told him about the insemination. What would make me think that?<\/p>\n

The fact that \u201chis\u201d signature on the authorization form looked more like hers than his. The fact that he once told me he\u2019d never met her doctor, which said the form wasn\u2019t signed in front of the doctor or his staff. And the fact that my father was so opposed to raising children that weren\u2019t his biologically that he\u2019d refused to adopt. Would such a man have agreed to donor insemination? That my father was opposed to adoption may give you the impression he wasn\u2019t a good or kind man.<\/p>\n

Nothing could be further from the truth. But for some reason, he refused to look at options that would give my mother what she so desperately wanted\u2026a child. My mother was a strong woman and it wouldn\u2019t surprise me in the least if she\u2019d done something to make her own dreams come true. Do I feel bad that she lied? I feel bad that she felt she \u201chad\u201d to lie. I feel bad that my father didn\u2019t care enough about what she wanted to find some middle ground. I truly believe it would have been a shame if she\u2019d never had a child. She was such a good parent. And so was my father.<\/p>\n

She and my dad had been married had been married forty-eight years when she died of cancer. They had a happy marriage though I\u2019m sure keeping this secret weighed on my mother\u2019s heart. In \u201cYour Ranch or Mine?\u201d my Silhouette Special Edition, coming out in July, the heroine (Anna) has a secret that weighs heavy on her heart. Unlike in my real life story, in the book the secret is revealed and Anna discovers the truth really can set you free\u2026”<\/p>\n

Thanks, Cindy. That is a more than interesting story. And I’m sorry too that your mother couldn’t open your father’s eyes to her deepest need. I think this is one of those occasions where love can cover a sin. And I and many others are happy you were conceived!–Lyn
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