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When I Met My Other Brothers

2/5/2019

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Bill Jepson and Peter Jepson on Coronado Island, San Diego, CA, circa 1991
 Meeting my father's two sons took some doing.

First, as you read in a previous post, I had to get confirmation from my birth mother Irene Sargent Nielen that Roscoe Jepson was my father. At that meeting, she also told me my brothers' names: Bill and Peter. (For a thrill, here's the Roscoe Jepson page.) Irene also told me she thought Peter lived in Galveston, Texas, but Bill was still in San Diego.

That done, I called Peter and William Jepson in the San Diego phone book. No luck.

Then I had this very weird experience, which I now


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    Joanne Wilshin

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      In 1948 my brother and I were taken away, or abducted as I see it, from our mother. I was almost two, and my brother was almost three. We were legally adopted by our new parents seven  years later on the grounds that we'd been abandoned. In 1981 I found my birth mother and the rest of her family

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