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Hi! I'm Dave
I am searching for my birth family. You may have seen them or even KNOW them. Please feel free to look at the information about me because, just maybe, YOU are the one who can help me. Who knows, maybe you ARE my family!
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*Editorial comment from the Webmistress
So many people, you'd be surprised how many - even other women, comment on how they could never give up their baby. "How could ANYONE do that? How selfish! Doesn't she CARE?" I'm here to tell you that women who give their babies up, as a rule - though there are exceptions, are giving them up because they care. They want their babies to be well cared for. Love is very important, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't create food and shelter. Sometimes, love means leaving your pride at the door and thinking of your child, and I believe this to be the case with Dave's birth mother.
There is a story about King Solomon which I think illustrates this point very well. To sum it up, 2 women shared a house. Both women had babies. One night, while the women were sleeping, one woman rolled over and suffocated her baby. When she realized what she had done, she switched the babies so that she had the living child and the other woman had the dead one. In the morning, the woman with the dead baby, upon closer examination in the daylight, recognized that the dead baby was not hers. The other woman insisted that the living baby was hers, though it wasn't. Finally, they went to King Soloman with their situation. To finish the story, 1 Kings 3:23-27 says: The king said, "This one says, 'My son is alive and your son is dead,' while that one says, 'No! Your son is dead and mine is alive.'" Then the king said, "Bring me a sword." So they brought a sword for the king. He then gave an order: "Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other." The woman whose son was alive was filled with compassion for her son and said to the king, "Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don't kill him!" But the other said, "Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!" Then the king gave his ruling: "Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother."
He knew that the real mother would chose her son over herself and willingly give him up to save his life. In the same way, a birth mother looks at her child's best interests and because she loves him/her, she makes the best decision she knows how to, whether it is to keep her child or give him/her up for adoption.
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Known Information About Me
Birth
Name:
Rickie Carl Bell
Date
of Birth:
June 13, 1952
Place
of Birth:
Booth Memorial Hospital, Detroit Michigan
Birth
Statistics:
Weight - 8 lb 13 oz
Hair Color - Dark Brown
Eye Color - Gray
Birth
Mother's Name:
First name: Unknown
Likely Last name: Bell
Birth
Mother's Date of Birth:
February 2, 1932
Birth
Mother's Description:
Before David/Rickie was born, she was 5' 5" tall and approx 145 lbs. She had brown curly hair, green eyes, and medium complexion. She was of Irish and Dutch desent.
*Other Information: She had a daughter who was approx 2 1/2 years old at the time of Dave/Rickie's birth. Her name is unknown, however she was described as being tall and stout. She had blond curly hair and blue eyes.
Birth
Mother's Family of Origin:
Her mother, age 46 at the time of the birth, was a housewife with a 10th grade education. She was described as being approx 4' 11" and of stocky build. Her father was 52 at the time. He went through 11th grade and was employed as a factory worker in one of trhe large automobile companies. He was about 5' 11" tall and slender.
She had 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Both sisters graduated from high school. One was employed as an office worker, and the other as a nurse's aide. One of her brothers completed 10th grade and worked at a sewing machine company, the other brother completed the 9th grade and was in the Marines.
Birth
Father's Name:
Unknown
Birth
Father's Date of Birth:
September 21, 1931
Birth
Father's Description:
He was described as being 5' 10" tall, slender, medium complexion, brown hair and has one blue eye and one green eye.
Birth
Father's Family of Origin:
Not much information was given about his parents except that his father died of a heart attack in 1948. At the time of the birth, his mother was still alive. Both of the father's parents were of Polish desent.
He had 2 sisters and one brother. All that is known of them is that they all completed the ninth or tenth grade.
*** Prayer Request: Please pray for the Lord's will in Dave's search.
"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." Matthew 18:19,20 (NIV)
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