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<blockquote data-quote="Ms.PacMan" data-source="post: 1096603" data-attributes="member: 4656"><p>Are you the same race as your parents? There was a little girl on my school bus route that was African American and had 18 brothers and sisters - all different ethnicities! She was 5. I told her I was adopted and she looked at me with her mouth open, then said, "But you're white?!". </p><p></p><p>At about age 25 I became jaundiced for no reason. I knew I was born jaundiced and decided to call the hospital and see if I could [-]trick[/-] socially engineer them into sending my birth records to my doctor. It was the day of the Sioux City plane crash. She asked for all the dates and just as she asked me my name (on the records it would have just said Baby girl Sullivan) the news came on with a video of the crash. I said OMG and started telling the records clerk what was happening. She in turn was telling her co-workers. We were on the phone for a very long time and then she finally said, "Where do you want these records sent?"</p><p></p><p>My doctor's appt was later that week and when the nurse came in I asked if the records had been sent over. "Oh, how interesting", I said. "Can I see them? I've never seen my birth certificate". <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group2/innocent.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":innocent:" title="Innocent :innocent:" data-shortname=":innocent:" /> She kind of hesitated but handed them over and I memorized everything I could until the doctor came in! I could hardly think straight. The doctor thought I was a nitwit or a hypochondriac maybe, and said to me that we really didn't need to look that far back in my medical records. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/blushing.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blushing:" title="Blushing :blushing:" data-shortname=":blushing:" /></p><p></p><p>So I had her hometown and I knew she had just finished high school and was heading to college.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ms.PacMan, post: 1096603, member: 4656"] Are you the same race as your parents? There was a little girl on my school bus route that was African American and had 18 brothers and sisters - all different ethnicities! She was 5. I told her I was adopted and she looked at me with her mouth open, then said, "But you're white?!". At about age 25 I became jaundiced for no reason. I knew I was born jaundiced and decided to call the hospital and see if I could [-]trick[/-] socially engineer them into sending my birth records to my doctor. It was the day of the Sioux City plane crash. She asked for all the dates and just as she asked me my name (on the records it would have just said Baby girl Sullivan) the news came on with a video of the crash. I said OMG and started telling the records clerk what was happening. She in turn was telling her co-workers. We were on the phone for a very long time and then she finally said, "Where do you want these records sent?" My doctor's appt was later that week and when the nurse came in I asked if the records had been sent over. "Oh, how interesting", I said. "Can I see them? I've never seen my birth certificate". :innocent: She kind of hesitated but handed them over and I memorized everything I could until the doctor came in! I could hardly think straight. The doctor thought I was a nitwit or a hypochondriac maybe, and said to me that we really didn't need to look that far back in my medical records. :blushing: So I had her hometown and I knew she had just finished high school and was heading to college. [/QUOTE]
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