One Perfect Day by Diane Burke

Author:Diane Burke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

A few years after our move, I think it was about 2008 or 2009, I’m not sure which, I was sitting in the living room with my family watching television when a new show came on. It was called The Locator. The show didn’t last very long on the airwaves but even in its short lifespan it had made an indelible impact on me.

The show was hosted by a man whose mother had been adopted. He set out to help her find her biological family and did. Then, he decided to host a show and try to do the same thing for other families.

One night I was watching one of the episodes about an adoptee that was being reunited for the first time with his biological family. As I watched, I saw a room full of blood relatives gather together to meet and greet him.

Of course, I knew the situation was staged for television and geared to create the highest emotional response for the ratings. Logically, I understood how things like that work.

But when the adoptee walked into the room, when he saw his biological family for the first time, when he was greeted and hugged and welcomed by a room full of strangers, but strangers that belonged to him, his blood, his relatives, his clan—it was like I had been hit by a brick. Watching that episode was the first time that any real raw emotion I had been keeping inside, either voluntarily or involuntarily, came out.

Tears burned my eyes. Emotions I had never even realized existed inside of me sprang to the surface with such force I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t understand the power and force of these emotions, just that this show had somehow shaken me to my core. Not wanting to embarrass myself in front of my children by crying, I got up and walked into the kitchen.

My wife quickly followed.

I couldn’t really understand at that moment why I was feeling the way I did.

My wife put her hand on my shoulder.

I looked at her and saw tears in her eyes, too.

“It’s time, Steve.” She smiled at me. “You need to find your mother.”

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