A woman in a row who has spent her entire life searching for her biological parents, after all, found them and was reunited with her mother in Glasgow, just months before their tragic deaths.
Megan Kennedy, 37, grew up knowing she had been followed and, on her 18th birthday, she applied for her original birth certificate and discovered the call from her birth mother: Patti Neil. In December 2018, new recordings were made available on ancestry. com and, after browsing the site, Megan discovered her mother’s main points on page 27.
She discovered that her mother lived in Scotland, where Megan was due to go in June 2019. Megan contacted her birth mother, Patti, 64, a retired saleswoman, on Facebook, who was thrilled to hear from her, and the couple piled up in Glasgow. , sitting and chatting for hours.
Patti passed away in February 2022 after battling abdominal issues. Megan then discovered she had a genetic match with a half-sister, Kayla, 30, in 2018, through GEDfit, and then with an aunt, Kathy, 66, in September 2020.
These encounters led her to notice her biological father, Johnny Cavalier, 62, a retired businessman. Johnny tragically passed away in February 2022 from polycystic kidney failure before she could meet him in person.
Megan has traveled more than 4,000 miles around the world to locate her long-lost circle of relatives and, despite the loss of her biological parents, feels she has discovered her “true identity” and “all her people. “
Megan, a wedding photographer from Birmingham, Alabama, USA”It’s almost hard to put into words what you feel: It’s an immense sense of peace. Every birthday I’ve spent hours on Patti, it’s amazing to think I’ll never have to check it out again.
“It’s bittersweet, but I’m so grateful that I reconnected with my bio before he passed away. “
Megan contacted her birth mother, Patti, on Facebook, after discovering she lived in Scotland. Patti didn’t respond immediately and Megan was afraid to see or answer.
I said, “I said thank you for giving me up for adoption, I brought. I wrote ‘Hi, maybe that’s a message, I’m looking for my birth mom, her call was Patti Neil Whiting, I think she looked a lot like you.
Patti said, ‘Oh my God, Megan, you’re lovely, I only thought of you last night. ‘I screamed, it was a guttural scream.
“Every dream and wish I had fulfilled, each and every birthday I had, I looked for them. “
Megan was thrilled when her birth mother, Patti, agreed to reunite in June 2019.
She said: “I’m so nervous but so excited. I felt all the emotions you may have felt: we met at Glasgow station and literally ran down the platform to hug each other. “
“Everyone cried, it’s like a movie. “
Patti explained that her mother, Megan’s grandmother, was from Wales and that her father, Megan’s grandfather, was from Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Patti, who had dual citizenship, grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. In the U. S. , at the age of 27 he went to live with his sister, Sherrie, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.
Patti, who married at the time, worked on ships as a sailor and fell in love with the “womanizer,” Johnny, 24, who is a diver. He told Megan they were in a month-long relationship and that’s when his daughter conceived.
Patti says she didn’t tell Johnny when she got pregnant, because she had already gotten married. He says he abandoned Megan in hopes of a better life.
She gave birth in Mobile, Alabama, USA, where Megan followed through Arthur Forehand, 71, a retired pharmacist, and Cassie Wilson, 72, a medical transcriptionist, through an adoption agency.
As for her father, Patti didn’t know her name, but Megan got a DNA fit on the online page for a half-sister, Kayla, 30, a homemaker, from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. U. S.
“I was ecstatic, I cried because I had been looking for a mom and dad. I never thought I would have brothers,” he said. That was the biggest advantage. “
The sisters loaded their “raw DNA” and loaded it into another, GEDmatch, and knowledge comparison revealed that they shared an “X chromosome,” meaning they shared a father. In September 2020, the sisters were on FaceTime and won an unannounced match of ancestry. com.
They revealed they had an attack: an aunt, Kathy Colllins, 66, in Highlands, Texas, USA. They approached the U. S. , and approached temporarily.
Kathy told them, “There are going to be surprises, you have to stick to it. “
His aunt revealed that he had two brothers: one had been married since high school, so he was excluded as a possible father, then sent photos of his other brother, Johnny.
“When I saw the photo, my center broke,” Megan said. “I knew it, she looked like Kayla. “
Kathy contacted Johnny on behalf of the women and asked them to send letters.
“He absolutely accepted any of us, was so open and kind and sought to get to know us,” Megan said. “He has a wife, Ragnhildur, 35, two years younger than me and a seven-year-old boy. “, Ajay, my little brother,” he revealed.
Johnny and his circle of relatives all lived on Roatan, an island off the coast of Honduras. In September 2021, Megan was willing to meet her father, but she was skeptical about covid, she had her three-year-old daughter, Cora, and the flights were exorbitant.
They decided to wait, but in November 2021, Johnny was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease and Megan didn’t realize how bad she was. and could not travel.
Two weeks later, Megan won a heartbreaking phone call from his wife, Ragnhildur, to tell her that Johnny was in the hospital and things were not going well, he passed away a few hours later, on February 17, 2022.
“It’s terrible. It was so hard that I hated we had covid the week we had to leave,” Megan said. “I was treated through my adoption agency, but I miss my birth parents every day. “
In March 2022, Megan traveled to Roatan to scatter the ashes of her defeated father in the Caribbean Sea at an emotional birthday party of her life on a ship.
“We all scattered his ashes in the Caribbean Sea, and this was the only time I could touch him and hug him,” she said. to locate all my people. “
Megan first met her seven-year-old younger half-brother Ajay and mother-in-law Ragnhildur. daughter, who conceived 3 months after giving Megan up for adoption.
“I felt like I didn’t belong and when my husband, Lee, and I got married in Louisiana in 2011, I felt a strange sense of belonging, like I was at peace,” she said. “I feel like a remodeled user. “Compared to the woman I was in 2019, I discovered all my people. When you look at your biological parents and see your traits in them, it’s the purest self you’ve ever known. “
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