Canadian Reunion Story

Although she tirelessly contacted adoption agencies, she was told it was a  closed adoption and her mother’s name could not be released. Still, Knight was  persistent, and when websites aimed at connecting adopted children with their  birth families were launched, she tried those, too.

“I always felt a void in my life,” Knight said. “Everybody else had brothers  and sisters, and I didn’t have any. I was always a loner.”

Knight said she has led a difficult life. When she was five, her adoptive  father left. Knight and her adoptive mother then moved from their home near  Regina to live with her grandparents in Montana. Her mother soon married a  Montana rancher, who she said was abusive and an alcoholic. He died in 1958, at  which point her mother started drinking and also became abusive, she said.

Knight said she got married at 13, and had a daughter and a son within two  years, before getting divorced. She later re-married, had two more daughters,  and spent 39 years with her husband before he died in 2000. Despite the  challenges she has faced, Knight said she doesn’t hold any grudges against her  birth mother.

“She did what she had to do, and she did it because I know she loved me, not  because she wanted to,” Knight said.

The cherry on top for the Oregon woman was finding out that she doesn’t only  have a mother and brother, but a total of nine siblings. After she married,  Sedor had four sets of twins and another daughter.

“It’s like winning the biggest lottery on Earth,” she said. “It feels  fantastic.”