Imagine being an innocent 16 year old girl in 1928 who believes that babies are brought by storks, out picnicking when you are raped. You don't even understand that you are pregnant at first. You are sent away. Then you give birth and give up a baby for adoption. 77 years go by. You have married, had children, grandchildren. Then one day...
Minka Disbrow lived this life, living to be 100 years old, outliving most of her contemporaries and long enough to be found. Now she has met Ruth, the baby she gave up, and has learned that she has a famous astronaut as one of her grandchildren!
This story is almost unbelievable.
It brought tears to my eyes.
Here was an innocent teenager who, despite what happened to her, loved her baby and wanted the best for it. As genealogists we learn a lesson here that perhaps there is no giving up.
(Linking to the full story brought to us through KPCC news.)
