I did not know until later on the day of our arrival in Jo'burg that the very first time Lorraine (my bmother) had ever seen me was as I walked into the Arrivals Hall of the airport - she says that if she had seen me when I was born (although she was told she could) she would not be able to give me up. She has had a pretty hard life and all her family keep saying that this has all happened at exactly the right time. Any earlier and perhaps things wouldn't have worked so well. (we even discovered we'd lived two streets away from each other in Berea in the mid 80's and went shopping at the same shops!). There is also little doubt about whose daughter I am - we are very similar in many ways and meeting some of my younger cousins for the first time was like looking at myself in a mirror at their ages!

The week as you can imagine was too short. Keith (my husband) and I had already planned a trip out to Zim at the end of this year and Lorraine is going to come up and join us - what a way to celebrate the millenium! Lorraine has a sister living in the UK (not too far from us) and had been planning to visit her next year anyway - so that trip is now definately on! So when we left Jo'burg we had to keep reminding ourselves that it wasn't an end but a whole new beginning.

I have been so blessed in this search and been given far more than I feel I deserve - some one out there has been looking out for me. The only way I can give anything back is to try and help anyone who is looking - so please if there is anyone on the site or you hear of needs help - please let me know - my file on contacts is now so thick I simply couldn't put all the info onto the site so just contact me. If I can help in some small way I will be only too pleased. (To reply, click here.)

Now onto my final search - Lorraine would like to try and find some of the people who helped her when she was pregnant and I wonder if you know how I can go about this. The first one is the woman who was Matron of St Claire's Home for Unmarried Mothers in Bulawayo ( I don't know how long the matron was there but she was certainly there in 1965) her name was Miss Sams.

The second and possibly a lot more difficult is the nurse who assisted Lorraine in my birth - she was at the Lady Rodwell in Bulawayo and her name was Helen (Lorraine never managed to find out her second name). Do you know of anyone who could help with this? (If anyone can help Margi with her requests, please let us know and we will forward the information to her. Click here to do so.)

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