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So far I have found a woman with her mother's name who I believe will be the correct one. She got married in Hill County to a Harris.Someone had stated that there was medical things such as high blood pressure or diabetes that may have run in the family.� These things would cause other problems so I will continue my search with the following criteria...

Possibly divorced again. Search for records under Harris for divorce and last known address. Robyn sometimes wears glasses and with high blood pressure and diabetes possible in her family, glasses would be a complication of those diseases.� Robyn also has a lead foot and gets tickets a lot so her mother may as well.

Hippa laws prohibit doctors from giving information so here is my game plan. I will call the optometrist and medical centers in the area I believe she is in. I will tell them that she is searching for her mother and give them here information. I will just ask that if she is a patient of theirs that they give her the information. I will also call police stations to see if they may have any information that is free to the public. Such as, tickets, accidents, etc... Wish me luck!!!

Robyn is Stephen's sister in law. She has been looking for her real mother for the past eleven years. She was adopted when she was two. She has been unable to find her mother but she has given me all the information she has available to her. I have made about 300 phone calls so far. I have run into a few dead ends but I have also received some good leads. It has only been a week so hopefully I will find her soon. I have narrowed it down to 3 possible women so it may get easier. Her father will be the harder part because she is unsure if her father is her father. Her mother gave a lot of misleading information at the time the children were taken. She also had a brother and a smaller sister born after she was taken and then her sister was taken as well. It gets complicated.

Ugh, I can not figure out where I am going with this book. I am so stuck. I know what I want for the ending but what now. I have lost perspective. I need to extend the entire thing and make some changes for more build up possibly. AAAHHHHH!

I went hiking again today. I saw a ton of great things that could work in my book. I took 2 rolls of film and used them both. I'm not sure if I will use the actual photographs or maybe have them drawn out and then add them to the book. Joe, Stephen's brother, can draw very good. I can't draw at all. Everything I do looks like it was done by a 5 year old.

���� People always seem very skeptical when they know I’m in dental school. I noticed their disbelieve immediately after I tell them what I study. I even told my husband to keep a close look on people's� face when I tell them I’m a dental student, just so he can report to me later. At first , my husband was sure it was my imagination, but he came to realize that peoples expressions were a little off, not to say "shocked".

���� I always considered myself a hardworking person. �I was never an "A" student or a "B” student. I was more the "C" or "D" student. Not because I did not work hard. It was more the opposite to be sincere. I worked so hard; that it was hard to believe I was a C - D student. I came in terms with myself�“I was just not the brightest" I did not see anything wrong with that. Until, when people would call me names like “slow", "stupid" or " God I give up you won't get it". That is when i started to realize that maybe I was a little slower than pretty much everyone in my class.

���� Growing up in Brazil, I had many other things to worry about than school. I grow up with my�dad and grandmother. We were not a rich family; I matter fact my dad struggled to make the ends meet. My mother is American and my dad is Brazilian. I always wondered�what was my mom�thinking when left me in Brazil at the age of three. Now� that I am living here in the United States, I understand perfectly why she did what she did. My mom always want us to have what she never had a " family".

���� My mother left my sister, my brother and myself�the care of our grandmother. My brother was from her first marriage. Now my sister and I were from her second relationship� ... I really don't think I can call that marriage, since she was never married to my father.�

���� My mom left us at a very young age. I remember her vaguely when I was little. I fell like a lot of the emotional struggles I have today were a result of her leaving us. I never blamed her for what she had done. I think it was very brave of her to live all her kids in a search to better their lives. With that being said, I think if wasn't for her living us; I would never be able to get an education here in the states or ever have meet the love of my life. That is why I’m a true�believer that�there is always a reason for why God does what he does.

�� So, here I start the journey of a lifetime. Coming out a poor city from the north of Brazil and ���not know any English at all; At the age of seventeen, I left all I ever had, friends and family to come and live with a women that I� barely knew. I had to learn a new language; new culture, and� a new life.�

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