Shar's Story: A Mother and Daughter Reunited

Shar's Story reveals a journey of love, heartache, loss, and finally reunion. This true story begins in 1966 when Shar became pregnant without the benefit of marriage... one of the most disgraceful things she could possibly have done.

She hid her sin behind the secretive doors of a home for unwed mothers, lived in loneliness and shame for five months, and gave birth to her beautiful baby girl under the watchful eyes of punitive nuns in a Catholic hospital.

Shar surrendered her baby to total strangers three days after her birth, because her sin and shame gave her no other choice.

She managed, however, to whisper to her baby to return someday and find her. And Baby did just that 36 years later!

Following a series of coincidences in which Shar finally gave up her shame and her secret after 36 years, she received the telephone call she had waited for all those years: "This call is for Sharon; this is Tom Lazio at American Homefinding in Ottumwa, Iowa; your daughter just called me and she wants to contact you!"

But this story is more than adoption and reunion. It is a story about the importance of giving up shame and guilt, recognizing that reconcilation and reunion for anyone is available in return. A reviewer wrote, "Her story is compelling when spoken, and now it is written in anticipation that the shattered in the reader's life may be gathered and made whole."