Did my parents leave me on a hillside to die?

By chance a caring mother followed her instincts and found me alive

Sent to a hospital with nothing but a basket and marks on my wrist from where I had been bound

A national appeal to find my parents came to no avail

Instead a kind family gave me a chance of a new life

Already struck by tragedy, I was their second chance

At the age of nine being told ‘’you’re adopted’’ came as quite a shock

I ran home and was sat down to be told I was left on a doorstep nine years ago

Were they trying to protect me from the truth that my parents left me on a hillside to die?

The adopted girl is always the heroine is what my books taught me

It never bothered me, these people were my parents and nothing would change that

I left school and became a nurse where I met my husband

Two children soon followed

The next revelation came when I was told I was not abandoned on a doorstep to be found

No, I was left on a hillside to die

My world tipped upside down. I was never meant to be alive.

Who could do such a thing?

Grandchildren appeared and they had a resemblance to me

But who actually was me?

Fifty seven years had passed but I felt it was time to discover who I was

Dead ends and hunches were all that I stumbled upon at first

I found the missing pieces between the bush and my new home

But I was no closer to knowing who my real parents were

Or why I was left on a hillside to die

Years passed and with the progression of technology came the progression of my story

An Irish girl born out of wedlock to a scared young mother who bravely decided to keep me

Given to a foster mother who then may have sold me

Eventually I ended up in South Downs where I was part of an adoption deal gone wrong

And so I was left on a hillside to die.

I now know who I am and how I came to be

I’ve learnt that through one bad deed came giant acts of kindness.

Which allowed me, to become me.

I am not the girl who was left on a hillside to die, I am what I choose to be,

And I choose to be me.

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Inspired by the news story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43420678