In an interview with The Guardian, Melbourne woman, Penny Mackieson, said she always knew she was adopted.
In 1989, she applied for her adoption records and obtained what she thought was the name of her biological mother.
Penny spent the next two decades getting to know and love the woman until gnawing doubts saw her take a DNA test which revealed they weren’t actually related.
Adoption Information Services then connected Penny with her real biological mother – an elderly Greek woman.
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On Tuesday, after a 15-minute hearing in the Victorian county court, Penny was able to correct her birth records and include her Greek mother’s name.
“It feels like this is the first day of the rest of my life. I feel much more optimistic and I feel freer – this is who I am,” Penny said after the verdict, according to The Guardian.
Penny is now set to visit Greece for the first time in July but she will not meet her biological mother as “she said she doesn’t want contact.”
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Source: The Guardian.
