'It changed my world 1000 per cent,' a Thunder Bay woman says
After being adopted at the age of nine, it was almost five decades before the Thunder Bay woman found out what happened to her biological parents – now deceased – and learned about her extended birth family.
The next day, Marsh reached out to her newly-identified uncle via Facebook, which started a chain reaction involving dozens of family members.Eventually, arrangements were made to have face-to-face meetings this summer in Pointe-Verte, New Brunswick and Matane, Quebec. She and her younger brother, Norm, came into the care of the Children's Aid Society in 1973, and were placed in two foster homes before being adopted.
Years ago but well into adulthood, the pair discovered they have four half-siblings, and that they all had the same mother.
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