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_ Search for identity (From page 14) book and found her parents' phone number. "That was something!" Bev exclaims. When she called the number, she found herself playing a little cat and mouse game, asking general ques- tions in order to make sure she had the right people. "I asked if that was her name and she said yes. If she lived in Whitby in 1943 and she said yes. In a trailer? Yes. Did she have two kids (Bev had other brothers and sisters)? Yes." Bev recalls asking. 'You see, I had to do all this before I let the bemb Not too much later, Faye's father gave her a shock of a lifetime when he actually came out with the name, straight out of the blue. Problem was, it was a different name and it wasn't until a lot more time went by that Faye figured out it was the same name, only spelled differently. As years passed, she made little headway, contacting relatives who didn't know or claimed they didn't know who it was Faye was looking for. "But bit by bit I felt I was making some headway," she says. Pretending she was interested in the history of the Oshawa area, Faye drop." dug up information about her When she did let the bomb drop, Mysterious family and eventually her birth mother reacted in shock, Wound up talking to her mother's denying the possibility that Bey brother. Not too much later, she could be her daugher. finally met the woman she had been Upset and crying, Bev sputtered, "I'm sorry to have bothered you. I can see you don't want to talk to me,"' and hung up. Admitted Defeat Still in tears, Bev admitted defeat. If her own daughters, who had been searching for, her birth mother. Suspicious, the elderly woman wasn't going to let Faye in the door, but it was raining and her natural good manners allowed Faye to slip inside. Once through the door, Faye handed her a letter explaining who she was and what she was doing listening to the phone conversation, there. | hadn't talked her into it, she _ "Isaid, Tve been looking for you ; wouldn't have called back. ~~. for 20 years,' " Faye recalls. "And 't very lucky." DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC | ! forget and she said, I don't Very lucky | remember. She didn't want to Bev also considers herself lucky. Open Weekdays including SUNDAY! : | i discuss it period and when I asked _ "I feel so much better, altogether " -- By Appointment Only -- " | my father, he hit the ceiling. different. It's'the best feeling you fl 66 Brock St. W, 214 Dundas St. E., 194 King St. W, f "I guess they didn't understand." can have. fl Uxbridge 852-5291 Whitby 668-7797 Oshawa 579-8752 But with their encouragement, Bev did just that, rattling off her name, address and telephone number and telling the woman, through sobs, that if she ever wanted to get in touch with her daughter, she was welcome. Again she hung up. Four days later, Bev received a letter from her birth mother, saying, "I believe you are my daughter." Bev says, '"We've been friends ever since." Faye's search was much longer, partly because she didn't go at it with as much impatience as Bev, and partly because information was so hard to come by. "The first time she asked her mother for information, she said she didn't know the name, but I could tell she did. I said, well, you wouldn't The next time Faye asked her mother for information, not really she said, 'Oh my goodness!' " She gave every excuse under the sun for giving young Faye up but lit- tle by little, as the two women talk- ed, all the hurting began to smooth away. "You can't catch up on all that's happened," she says. "You have to make the most of the years that are left." Things began happening quickly for Faye as she met her natural father (married to someone else) and numerous relatives. "My life has changed in a lot of ways," she says. "At least I now have a true identity. My search has . filled that missing link and then some. "It's all turned out better than I thought it would be but basically I think I'm one out of 1,000. I think I'm Say it with a ... PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, March 11, 1986 -- 1S 8 © Faye Alidred spent 20 years searching for her birth parents but says the end result was well worth the hard work and the. frustration. Opposite, Faye as a young child, always being remin- ed of her adopted status. THAPAR ------ ty ----- -- --- we a wn a thinking she would get an answer, the woman surprised her. "She sat back and pondered. I guess she knew I wasn't going to give up." 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