Meeting my birth mother, 27 years on

Caitríona Palmer was adopted at birth from a Dublin ‘baby home’. When she tracked down her mother 27 years later, she was overjoyed, but there was just one heart-breaking complication…

 

I can remember still, with great clarity, the terror of meeting my birth mother, Sarah, for the first time – the nausea, scanning the room for a wastebasket in case my stomach failed me, the sound of her footsteps as she approached the door.

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