Some youngsters who are placed in foster care never get the opportunity to
meet their birth parents. Joanne Loewenstern, a citizen of Florida, spent
her whole childhood believing that her mother had passed away after
childbirth since that is what everyone kept telling her. But as Loewenstern
explains in an interview with The Washington Post from last year, she always
had the sensation that her original mother was somehow still alive.
Despite what she had been told her whole life, Loewenstern, who was 79 at
the time of this narrative, decided to search for her mother because of this
belief. However, the only information she had was her mother's name, Lillian
Feinsilver, and the name of the New York City hospital where she was born,
Bellevue Hospital.
However, Loewenstern didn't look for her mother because she was unhappy or
unhappy with her existence as a foster child. Loewenstern had loving foster
parents who adopted her barely two months after her birth, and she had a
fulfilling life.
While working additional jobs on the evenings and weekends, she got
married, acquired a home in Far Rockaway, Queens, and had four
children.
Loewenstern persisted in seeking for her mother despite this.
But dead ends after dead ends made her rethink. And Loewenstern told The
Post that she gave trying after hiring a private investigator who was unable
to locate her long-lost mother.
"You know what, I'm done," I said. According to Loewenstern, the newspaper.
Sure, I sobbed, but that was all. You see, I felt like I didn't belong in
anyone's group.
But in 2018, Loewenstern's lifelong search to discover her mother was
finally successful owing to 21st-century technology.
According to The Post, Loewenstern's daughter-in-law advised that she visit
Ancestry.com to try to learn more about her mother. Loewenstern decided she
didn't have much to lose since she had already given up on the quest.
Before I left, I wanted to learn more about (my mother)," Loewenstern
remarked.
Amazingly, Loewenstern discovered her mother after years of looking.
Sam Ciminieri first mentioned Lillian Feinsilver in an email, claiming she
was his mother. This narrative is made much more unbelievable by the fact
that Feinsilver was located in a Florida elderly care home approximately 80
miles from Loewenstern.
Ciminieri told The Post, "It turns out we have a whole other family we
never would have found.
The newspaper claims that Feinsilver was 100 years old when Loewenstern
eventually located her. She also required a wheelchair and had dementia, so
Ciminieri's ex-wife Shelley was still looking after her. Shelley told The
Post that her mother-in-law had constantly begged for her daughter despite
the fact that she was losing her memory. Shelley said, "She kept repeating
she lost her daughter, she lost her daughter."
But why was Feinsilver cut off from her own daughter, and what happened to
her? One hypothesis holds that the infant was taken from Feinsilver, a
young, unmarried mother, by medical personnel.
According to Shelley, "each of them went through life believing the other
had dead."
The two families agreed to get together at Feinsilver's assisted care home
after learning about one another. Feinsilver ultimately spoke the words
"This is my daughter," after taking some time to properly comprehend what
was happening.
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