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One year ago this month I received the results from my Ancestry DNA test. Within 24 hours I had found my birth mother. I'm not going to lie, I was in shock. I was part of a closed adoption through Catholic Charities. I was adopted in a state, Minnesota, which does not have open records. I had attempted to get access to my OBC but my birth mother would have had to filed paperwork to allow me to see it. I tried to go through Catholic Charities but all I could afford at the time was to pay them for my non-identifying biographical information, which was about $65. They did have another option, which cost hundreds of dollars. Through this option Catholic Charities would have attempted to find and contact my birth mother, but if she wanted to have nothing to do with me, I was out of money with no information. I was already so disenchanted with Catholic Charities that I could not bring myself to give them anything more. I had no faith they would follow through. I pretty much gave up hope of e