2. Who made up Donna's family? - Grandparents, aunties, cosines, mother and brothers and her husband and foster parents
4. What was it like after the separation? - After the separation, Donna was taken to New Castle, a life so different from her real home. Red dirt replaced with tall buildings and different smells Donna wasn't used to. Soon after she arrived she got allocated to her new family. She was taken home with her new foster parents, in the new house she went to, she wasn't used to being the only child there, and the only two adults that where there where her new foster parents, Donna was not used to living like this. Because where she used to live Donna was not used to having a Man in the family, so every day when her father would come home from work, she would run and hide, taking her months to a just to having a man around the house. They moved around a lot and Donna went to a lot of different white people school, being called names for being the only different colored skinned child there. Year’s had gone by, but one day Donna decided to go to a women’s meeting. When she went there was a black women in front of her, she saw that the lady’s name was the same as her rightful mother, it turned out to be her mother’s friend and soon after that Donna was reunited with her mother and brothers. Donna Meehan, a young girl at the age of 5 ½, her and her brothers taken away from there family’s. Brother’s places in Sydney and Donna put by herself, never to see her family again. Put into foster care, being in a new environment, new place, new smells, new everything. She should have been happy here, been given a new chance, a better chance at life. But Donna new something was missing by the time she had come to a conclusion that something in her life was missing she was married with one child. Donna had gotten depressed, knowing she would forever miss a part of her life and never find or gain it again, but one day Donna was brought upon a young women, with the same name as her birth mother, this women turned out to be her mother’s friend. Soon after that Donna sent her birth mother a letter, receiving one back. Not long after this, Donna, her two brothers and her mother, were reunited as one family. |
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