Journey To A Family

<p>My story starts with my younger daughter dropping a bombshell meaning she has the biggest decision to make of her life so far. This arouses memories for me of 21 years earlier in the mid 1980’s.</p><p>We had recently moved to Scotland intending to turn the big old dilapidated house we’d fallen for into a B&B and a home for the three or four children we hoped to have but one day the dream was shattered.</p><p>Without any of the benefits of modern technology we had to try to rebuild it using yellow pages numerous telephone calls letters networking and a journey almost half way across the world.</p><p>It also included experimental fertility treatment unhelpful adoption agencies a TV programme offers of help from dubious South American lawyers red tape unknown immigration issues and a number of unexpected twists.</p>