A woman named Amy Bottomley met his biological mother for the first time on mother’s day of 2019.
Amy was raised in the suburbs of Chicago by two parents as she was placed for adoption by her then-18-year-old birth mother. She was an infant at the time adoption and the couple who adopted Amy moved to Tampa, Florida.
She always wanted to know about her biological mother, so Amy’s adoptive parents gave her a DNA test as a gift in the hope of helping her daughter to meet her birth mother.
Amy met her birth mom, Kathleen Buchanan, after months of talking on the phone. The connection started after she got the results of her DNA test.
She said that she was nervous as she sat alongside her adult son in the Tampa airport to go to meet her birth mother for the first time.
“I am feeling a mix of emotions right now,” She told WPTV. “It’s going to be interesting.”
“My whole life, my entire life, 42 years.”
When Kathleen stepped off the tram, she saw Amy whom she had seen last time 42 years ago. She immediately embraced her daughter.
“I just couldn’t wait. You know I just couldn’t wait to get my arms around her,” Kathleen said.
She said that she was always hopeful that one day her daughter would find her.
Kathleen recalled the moment when she placed her daughter for adoption as she was only 18, and felt like she couldn’t give her the best life.
“One of the things that you have to except is that it could be forever, you don’t really know,” she said.
“It was something that I have looked at and read one million times over because it was a piece of her.”
“I’ve always been told by my mom who raised me that I’m a strong-willed woman, independent woman. And I am. I always thought I got that from my birth mom.”
Kathleen wrote a letter to her daughter in 1977 at the time adoption as she explained the reason for placing her for adoption.
She wrote: “To my beautiful daughter,
By the time you are old enough to read this, I am sure you will also be old enough to understand the reasons behind this.
I gave you up to the good people who are now your parents, not because I didn’t want you but because what I wanted for you I could never have given you.
When I saw you after you were born you were so beautiful and that’s the way I wanted you to stay — physically and emotionally.
I hope at reading this you love me as much as I love you as I write it.
Even as our lives go on, if the situation arises that I have other children don’t ever feel that I could forget you.
Please be good to yourself, to your parents and to me in your thoughts because my decision was the best road to happiness for us all.
I love you,
Your mother.”
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