Anna Hoffman sat at her kitchen table sipping her cup of herbal tea and staring out bay window. She looked up at clock and back to bay window. It was near end of summer and Anna thought about phone call she received previous evening from a man by name of Donald Semmes. They had talked for about an hour on phone concerning possibility that this man could be her real father. Anna had been adopted about 20 years ago, to a middle aged couple, Joe and Denise Hoffman. Anna didn’t know a lot about her birth parents. The Hoffmans hadn’t discussed much about them, other than giving Anna small details about their possible whereabouts. She was a little nervous about meeting with Donald Semmes, but yet she longed to know about her birth parents and wanted to know more about what really happened and why she was taken from them.
Donald Semmes listened to GPS as he drove down one street after another, hoping he’d written down correct directions that Anna had given him night before. He’d wondered what she looked like. He had tried to keep up with her over years through various social media outlets. He didn’t know much about how she grew up, or what she had been doing over the years. All he knew is her adoptive parents’ names and that they had cared for Ruth and his daughter for past few decades of her life. Donald was excited that he would finally
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She never understood why there wasn’t any baby pictures, etc of her in Hoffman’s home. Hoffman’s did tell Anna about her birth parents shortly before she graduated high school. Anna had found birth certificate and noticed times just didn’t seem to add up to her. When she had questioned her adoptive mother, Denise about it, Denise began to cry. It was later than day that Joe and Denise Hoffman sat down with their daughter and explained the birth certificate, etc and told Anna she was