This is a picture of our Mother and birth dad taken in Washington, D.C. - pen pals who met in Delaware where she was working. They moved to Florida where he was stationed and that is where my sister and I were born. I don't remember much about him as they divorced when I was very young. When our brother was scheduled to go to Viet Nam, he wanted to find him and eventually did. My sister and I were never curious enough to meet him and he never pushed the issue. My brother established a relationship with him of sorts and let us know when he passed away. I didn't see a picture of my birth dad until after Dad passed away. It was very strange to look at a picture of a stranger and try to see if we looked like him. Mother was always very secretive about the fact that she had been divorced - in fact, it was my sister and I who sort of remembered Dad coming on the scene and learning how to spell a new last name. We put two and two together and finally asked her about it when we were in our teens. At first she denied it but eventually told us the truth.
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Sad how parents of that generation were so secretive of their pasts. My mom was married before as well. I told my brother after both of our parents were gone. He called me a liar. I had found my mother's divorce papers, she caught me snooping and when I asked about Phil Rivers she just said he was a sad man that drank too much. For years...a decade really...I wondered if this man was my father. I asked, she avoided answering. Why? All she had to say was no. Are you looking thru old pictures? It is fun, revealing and sad all at once.
Wow - we have lots in common! Mother never said too much about WEP except that he was very intelligent but not meant to be a parent. He wanted to move us all to Cuba and I think that was the last straw. And yes, I'm going through pictures and it's everything you say it is.
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