Imagine finding your birth mother after many years of wondering and searching, but being unable to tell her you were her child. This is what happened to Phyllis Whitsell. Adopted when she was
a young girl, Whitsell was told that her birth mother, Bridget Ryan,
had died from tuberculosis.
As the years went on, however, she couldn’t shake the feeling that her mother was still alive and out there, somewhere. She was, it turned out, but they did not have the kind of reunion Whitsell had anticipated.
http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/Nurse-adopted-as-a-child-found-and-cared-for-her-Irish-mother-never-revealed-identity.html
As the years went on, however, she couldn’t shake the feeling that her mother was still alive and out there, somewhere. She was, it turned out, but they did not have the kind of reunion Whitsell had anticipated.
http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/Nurse-adopted-as-a-child-found-and-cared-for-her-Irish-mother-never-revealed-identity.html