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It was a different time. <\/p>\n
Sixteen and pregnant is scary at any age, but in Pittsburgh, in 1966, it left a young lady with few choices. <\/p>\n
Cathy Nelson found herself in a Catholic home for unwed mothers when she was that girl. <\/p>\n
Cathy didnt know it, but her mother had breast cancer and that may have had a lot to do with Cathys mother insisting that she couldnt keep the baby. <\/p>\n
She, like I did, wanted her to have the best life she could and that wouldn't have been with me, admits Cathy. <\/p>\n
That baby grew up happy and healthy in an adoptive family. <\/p>\n
When I was 17, my dad, every night before I went to bed, he told me he loved me, says Karen Thurbon. And I knew they did but there are just some things that they can't answer. <\/p>\n
Thats the power of human DNA. <\/p>\n
And it was DNA that eventually led Karen to find her birth mother. Both Karen and Cathy were looking for each other for years. <\/p>\n
Everybody has a right to know where they came from, Karen says, emphatically. <\/p>\n
But they ran into legal roadblocks: I called an attorney in the town where I grew up I tried to have that done and he told me that was none of my business, says Karen. <\/p>\n
They also had other hurdles to overcome, including the fact that Karens birth certificate had the wrong date on it. <\/p>\n
Cathy was searching on the 24th, I was searching on the 23rd. If anything came up on any other day, I just scrolled past it, never gave it any thought, says Karen and, just for the record, she was born on Christmas Eve. <\/p>\n
But both kept up the search for years. <\/p>\n
I knew it was going to be hard and I didn't know what steps I had to take, says Karen, but I just knew I never wanted to give up. <\/p>\n
Cathy would talk to friends about Karen, all the time, and they would ask things like, Don't you ever wonder about her?' And I said, 'I wonder about her, every day, I mean, there's not a day that goes by that I don't think about her.' And I said, 'If I could just see her and know she's okay - she doesn't have to know who I am - but if I could just see her and know that she's okay and that she's happy, that's all I want. <\/p>\n
They only had tangential luck until Karens husband uploaded her DNA information to a website that allows that MyHeritage.com. It was then, that it all came together. <\/p>\n
In this edition of the Buckley Report, see their parallel lives come together after a 50-year wait. <\/p>\n
I don' think anyone should go 50 years without their child, it just shouldn't happen, says Cathy. <\/p>\n
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