Comments on: Adoption – One Year Later

By: darren

darren — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:43:47 +0000

hi this is darren byrne also i googled my name and came across ur site its very strange reading about ur life and realising how scarily similar my life is im 28 and left my mother at a very early age and now a year ago have found i have a half brother and sister just thought id give some feed back.
its a strangely earie world where there are 2 people with exactly the same name and a very similar life

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:04:22 +0000

Best of luck on Saturday

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:04:01 +0000

Best of luck next week!!

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:41:47 +0000

@Ruairi Thank you very much for your kind words. It’s appreciated.

By: Ruairi

Ruairi — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:07:43 +0000

Nice post and congrats on the reunion. Best of luck in the blog awards next week.

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By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:09:49 +0000

Thank you very much, especially Mary and Darragh for a multitude of reasons.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:51:49 +0000

Darren, I always love reading about your experience of finding your mam and family, I always think it’s heartwarming and fantastic.
I’m so glad it worked out so fantastic for you all and hope it continues to do so.

By: darragh

darragh — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:18:54 +0000

it’s an amazing experience and one that happens far too rarely. To sit opposite the woman who gave you life then have you up to have a better one, a better chance, an opportunity to get the best things from life that she doesn’t feel she can provide – it’s both humbling in realising what she had to do and delightful in relishing the rare chance to converse with a woman where the emotional attachment isn’t tainted with any childish bitterness of the punishments she felt she had to give, the rules she felt she had to enforce or the questions you may have about some of the decisions she made in her parenting.

You know my friend how blessed I say you are with this story and how you appreciate it. Enjoy it.

I hope someone’s inspired to perhaps look for their birth mother or get in touch if you’ve met but haven’t been in contact. All it takes is a simple word. Hello.

By: Grannymar

Grannymar — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:21:54 +0000

Happy Anniversary of meeting your birth mother.

I hope you are feeling better today.