After his adoption, a 75-year-old American met his five half-siblings for the first time. Due to a new law, he had been given earlier access to his birth certificate.
It was his “very personal Christmas miracle!” Thanks to a new law in New York State, Dixon Handshaw was able to see his birth certificate for the first time, 75 years after his adoption. This is how he learned the name of his biological parents. But that’s not all: he found out that he has a half-sister and four half-brothers. Shortly before Christmas, they all met in person for the first time.
Handshaw’s father, Robert “Bud” Romig, was a physics professor who had fathered a child with his university secretary, who was given up for adoption after birth. Romig later married another woman, with whom he subsequently had five biological children and adopted another three.
Handshaw long hesitated to contact his half-siblings: “I didn’t want to interfere in their lives.” Two weeks before Christmas he decided to do just that.
On December 20, Handshaw finally flew to Rochester, where he fell into the arms of all his siblings at a family reunion: “I have never experienced such an outpouring of love as from my biological family!”
Source: Krone
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