Adoption Reunion Story Chapter Two

Adoption Reunion Story

Chapter Two

In the summer of 1970, when I was 17, my best friend and I left our little town to travel to the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. The idea was that we would get work picking fruit in the orchards.

Of course, that never did happen! My 'friend' turned out to be not so much a friend after all.....she and I joined the hippies in the city park in Kelowna, and then she would take off for hours at a time, expecting me to wait for her.....that lost it's charm after a day or two.

On August 9 a new boy, Nick S. arrived, fresh from hitch hiking up from the U.S. He told me later that the minute he saw me sitting under a maple tree in the park, he said to his pal, "That's the girl I'm going to marry!" He was 19, which seemed very grown up to me.

He introduced himself, and within days, we were a couple. My friend, with whom I'd arrived in the Okanagan was very angry that I was 'deserting' her, but I had fallen madly in love with this wonderful, happy-go-lucky boy from Kansas, Mid-west accent and all.

We travelled north to Vernon, B.C. and stayed at a youth hostel there. We met K. H., and his girlfriend, G.M. Shortly after, as we walked along the street, K.H. and G.M. pulled up in a bright lemon yellow convertible . K. H. told us that the car belonged to his uncle, who had told him he could borrow it. Never thinking at all, we hopped in when invited. K.H. and G.M. wanted to travel east, and they asked if we wanted to go along. We said, "Sure!"

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