As the email opened, Diane felt 40 years back, in a cold hospital room, on a metal stretcher where she was naked, bleeding, terrified and completely alone. The violent convulsions that shocked her body awakened the trauma of that day of September 1976. Memories of shame she had buried for decades returned demanding answers. A 42 -year -old man, Simon, suddenly wrote to her to tell her that he thought he was his mother. He had been adopted at birth and the dates and the place fit. Diane had actually gave birth to secrets that day, at the age of 21, unmarried and naive. However, she was convinced that she could not be her child, as her midwives had told her that her baby had died. They never revealed to her if she were a boy or a girl, they just announced her newborn death. No consolation, no words of compassion. For the hospital staff it was ‘shame’ and […]
Source: News Beast
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