I just read your lovely story and was very touched….as I too am a WS child.

Actually, I believe I was kept there are the home longer than any other….I stayed there until I was 17 months old…until my birth mother’s family ‘finally’ took me home. I was then raised by my Grandparents.

I have my complete file from WS….all the letters and documents of history of my birth…all very compelling.

Why I was never adopted out I will never know…but I stayed there in that nursery for nearly a year and a half.

Your description of how you felt by going there is exactly mine….I was 58 years old. I am now 73 and the year of my birth was l936.

The place still haunts me. I have forced myself not to go back. I too was given the boxes of old things to look through….I too made copies.

Then my birth mother died and I presented her death certificate to WS and they sent me the complete file…even in the old folder….all of which I treasure.

I was raised to believe my birthmother was my sister.
She was just 16 when I was born. Oh the letters she wrote from there which I now have….so very heartbreaking.

There is so much to tell I don’t know where to begin.
It was at a time when things were very hush hush….and to make matters worse…my grandfather was a minister….so the whole thing brought shame upon the family.

I will leave it there for now.

But, I am so very grateful to be one of the WS children….they did so much for me.

Jerrun