In 1983 my adoptive parents had just started the adoption process when one night they got a phone call. There was a child who needed to be adopted right away. However there was no picture, no background information and they would have until 3pm the next day to decided. After a long night sleepless, they took a leap of faith and, decided to adopt.
Wondering who this mystery child was, they flew down to Honduras to bring home someone they knew nothing about. Curiously, they received a lot of help from the US and Honduran governments. They where given a place to stay and a lawyer to do all the paper work. The people helping them wouldn’t tell them much but my parents learned that there had been a shoot out months earlier and I had been found at the scene.
I grew up knowing almost nothing about my past or what had happened in that safe house. For most of my life I didn’t even know my birthday. Then one day we received a phone call that would change out lives forever.
A man who worked with Physicians for Human Rights called to tell us that my family had been looking for me. He worked with a Salvadoran based organization called Pro-Busqueda. They were trying to reconnect families that had been torn apart in El Salvador’s 13 year civil war.
It turned out I was not Honduran. My parents had been revolutionaries in the civil war and I had been separated during a mission gone wrong in Honduras.
After a blood test confirmed that hey were indeed my family we started to make arrangements to fly down. That Christmas we flew down to meet them the for the first time. I was greeted by 30 friends and family members. Meeting them for the first time was an incredible experience but it was only the beginning of journey…
My mother’s name was Ana Milagra. Milagra mean miracle in English. This site is dedicated to memory. While we never knew her, we will never forget her sacrifice for us.
“Losing ones family obliges us to find our family. Not always the family that is our blood but the family that can become our blood.”
Sean Connery – Finding Forester
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