Growing Up Blessed

I was so fortunate to grow up in a family who just adored me. All of my needs were met and I never had to want for anything. I felt loved each and every day and grew up in a neighborhood with plenty of kids and often played hide and go seek, baseball, kickball you name it. If I wasn't at my friends house they were at mine. I finally got ansy and married when I was very young for the first time, it was then at age nineteen I started to truly wonder if my birth family was living close by or just where exactly they maybe living.
I started to ask my adopted mom and dad questions to see if they may know any info that would help me to understand where I came from, unfortunately they knew no more than the paper I had been holding onto for so many years.
Three years passed and when I turned twenty two my desire to know info about my birth family became so strong. I imagined where they might be living, had our paths already crossed, were they themselves wondering where I may be? I had asked Frances, but it seemed to painful for her to talk about, almost as though she felt as though she may be forgotten once my birth family was found. I decided to ask my Edward as my parents had now been divorced for a few years even though they had remained good friends. Edward had told me he would research the info and see what he could find. I was so nervous yet excited to think I may finally have the answers I had longed for. The moment of hope was short lived as my adopted dad Edward became very sick with what we thought was pneumonia and turned out to be lung cancer. I remember that day so well my whole world seemed to shatter and it seemed as though my legs were like jelly. He was diagnosed in October of 92 and passed away December of the same year. It all happened so fast and not only did I lose my daddy it felt like my dream of ever finding my birth family died too that same day.
My husband and I divorced a few months later and I moved back in with Frances in order to get back on my feet. I was trying to keep busy and get back to work enjoying life as best I could. A year passed and I met my current husband right out of the blue. He was working at a local market a short distance from where I was staying and we hit it off. We started talking and evetually exchanged phone numbers and before we knew it we were dating and falling in love. We married in 94 and had a new home that my father in law had helped build and it wasn't long we were talking about starting a family.