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2023-01-06
Adopted via the Gospel Children’s orphanage, I would love to meet my biological parents
I had a happy life in Belgium so there is no hard feeling about my adoption. All I need is to reconnect with my roots: who am I? What was my parents’ real story? Are they still alive and would they want to meet me?
I was born in Taiwan in 1968, maybe on August 15th. I was brought to the Gospel Children's orphanage in Taipei run by reverend Jordan Wen when I was about 2-3 years old. Jordan called me Siu Cien, I don't know if this was my real name, given by my birth parents or just a name invented by Jordan. There is a possibility that my parents could not keep me because they were not legally married and my grandfather did not want his daughter to keep me, this is the story Jordan told my adoptive mother.
I did live with my birth mother for the first 2 years of my life. Reverend Jordan Wen said that my parents had met at a market. My dad was doing his military service maybe in Hsinchu and was fetching food for his group when he met my mother who was selling vegetables at one of the market stalls. According to letters between Jordan Wen and my Belgian adoptive mother, it appears my biological parents tried to get me back a few times but they could not pay the fees that Jordan was asking for my food and expenses. After 4 long years, I finally got adopted in 1976 by a Belgian lady when I was 8 years old. In a letter Jordan also says my birth mother had refused many times to allow my adoption, not signing the papers. My adoption took very long so I stayed many years at the orphanage and lots of letters were exchanged between Belgium and Taiwan.
Recently I did a couple of hypnosis sessions to unlock early childhood hidden memories: there was maybe a lighthouse, the sea or a lake nearby the place where my maternal grandparents lived, I think I lived there with my mum and her parents. My parents brought me together to the orphanage and my dad was driving a motorcycle, I remember bridges.
I have done DNA testing on Ancestry, 23andme, Myheritage, Gedmatch, etc.I connect with DNA cousins who seem to have ancestry surnames like Chen, Lin, Lo, Cien, etc. My maternal haplogroup is N and a good group of my DNA cousins have their origins in the Nantou province.
I had a happy life in Belgium so there is no hard feeling about my adoption. I am happily married with 2 wonderful grown-up children. I have restarted learning Mandarin recently. All I need is to reconnect with my roots: who am I? What was my parents’ real story? What life did they have? Did they have other children together or separately maybe? Are they still alive and would they want to meet me?
If this adoption story is familiar to you and we could be related please reach out to the Child and Juvenile Adoption Information Center.
🔺 Me as a kid
🔺 The day I left Taiwan, picture with reverend Jordan Wen
🔺 Me as an adult