"Happy Birthday #2"

A most bizarre thing is happening to me ... days are disappearing! Just when I think I'm going to persistently write and get myself all caught up ... several days have transpired and, alas, I have not written anything. Has anyone else ever experienced such a phenomenon?

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While I was in Trail, I received a most cherished email from my brother, Kevin, with the subject line, "Happy Birthday #2". In the midst of all my preparation and recuperation surrounding my surgery, I had totally forgotten that it had been one year since we "found" each other.

February 15th marked the day that Kevin first heard that I existed. On February 16th, the first (of hundreds) monumental emails exchanged hands. I will never, ever forget looking at photographs of my precious brother and sister for the very first time. Also, the way Kevin signed his first email will forever be etched on my memory -- "Your little brother, Kevin." He signed his February 16, 2014 email the very same way.

The day truly was another birth-day for me. The door was opened on an entire missing piece of me. A vital, lacking part of me was "born". Now, one year later, I simply cannot imagine life before Kevin, Charlotte, Mom, Dad, TC, Kimmie, Hub, and Dianne. What a memory-filled, whirlwind year it has been.

My birth-day gifts ... a cancer-induced reunion with my birth mom, another dad, my sister, Char, my brother, Kevin, and the rest of my wonderful new family.

Soooooooooooooooo worth it!!!