I am always honored and delighted to tell others about my experience with Pamela.

Four years ago, she undertook the search to find my son, my first-born, whom I relinquished for adoption in 1978.

Although there had been efforts made at the time to make it hard to track him down, Pamela found my son. It took several months, which I have been told by others she has worked for is much longer than her searches usually take. During the process, she was patient with my anxiety (OK, to be honest, I was obsessive and possessed). Once my son was located and I contacted him by email, he was skeptical about responding to me. Pamela was in touch with him for 5 weeks while he struggled to decide if he wanted to speak with me. Pamela was kind and patient with him, and supportive and encouraging to me.

On Halloween 2000, my son wrote me an email for the first time. On December 9, 2000 , we met face-to-face for the first time since the caseworker took him from my hospital room in 1978.

We have a loving, supportive relationship today. Pamela made it possible -- I had been searching for 4 years on my own. The debt of gratitude I owe Pamela has no bounds. I could not have survived the experience if she hadn't handled it as she did.

Forever in your debt,
-Carol Pink

I honestly don't know where to start....and if I spent as much time writing today as I spent  hoping and wishing for information, answers, faces (34 years!)...it STILL wouldn't convey the magnitude of imporatnace that my search holds for me.

The bottom line is this; were it not for Pamela, I wouldn't be here to write of my experiences.

Yes, 34 years of longing and wondering. 34 years in which I presumed I had thought of every possible scenario and outcome. 

The fact that you are here reading this tells me you don't need an explanation of the feelings and thoughts that came BEFORE my search. I suspect you know those feelings all too well. Rather, I will share my POST search feelings and experiences.

I was placed for adoption at birth and adopted at the age of 10 months. I was raised in a loving family (a fairy tale upbringing of sorts) and with full understanding that I had been adopted, like my older brother was before me. While my brother has shown little to no interest in doing his own search, I was determined to do so from the beginning.

Pamela was the key to making my wish become reality. 

With professional demeanor and the expertise and know-how that only comes from experience, she not only conducted my search..she also brought it to an end in what to me seemed like an incredulous amount of time.

She initiated the contact and handled the entire operation from beginning to end with compassion that only a person who has "been there" can.

The short story is this;

My (birth) mother passed away long ago. However, she left behind a large loving family - her own mother (whom I had been named after when I was in foster care), eight (yes, EIGHT!) siblings, and a child whom she gave birth to after me. A sister - MY sister - my BABY sister. As if this isn't all enough, my sister lives 15 minutes away from me. The majority of the rest of the family lives within an hours drive. Wait - it gets better.... one year after finding, my sister and I decided to have DNA testing done "just to make sure" we were indeed sisters at some level. As it turns out, we are not merely sisters - we are FULL blooded sisters; we share the same father!  I found BOTH sides of my family. Our father lives far away and I hope to have the pleasure of meeting him one day. But I know who he is and where he is. As a result of his second marriage, I also have a brother. The fact that my sister and most of the others live so close is miraculous enough but the other coincidences (Yes!  There are ore!) are mind boggling, to say the least. Now, two years after "finding" we are continuing to build our relationship and get to know one another.

  The answers I was so in need of are coming - as are new questions. The process is ongoing and I cannot thank God or Pamela enough for the good fortune I've experienced.  The entire experience has been amazing but as we begin to seetle into these new found and yet basic relationships - it's the emotional aspect that is most profound, for all concerned parties I believe. The release of the bottled up emotions which spanned 3+ decades added to the emotions inspired as a result of a search complete is highly charged - to say the very least. Regretfully, not everybodys search ends as ideally as mine has. But for me, the search was essential regardless of what the outcome would be. To me it seems as if everything has come "full circle" for everyone touched by this. My sister and I know have each other and we like to think that our mother can finally rest in peace as a result. There are no words for the high regard in which I hold Pamela. I cannot recommend her strongly enough. Please contact me if you would like more information from me or would like more details of my reunion - I could talk about this until your ears fall off!!!! 

I can be contacted at; SQUID8468@AOL.COM

Wishing you each all the best in your individual searches...

Sue