In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping
to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted
quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in
Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy
there smoothed the way for the adoption. Within a few weeks,
Margaret Ward and Thomas de Witt were the parents of a toddler they
named Nelson--an adorable boy whose prior life seemed as mysterious
as the fact that government officials in two countries had
inexplicably expedited his adoption.
In Missing Mila, Finding Family, Margaret Ward tells the
poignant and compelling story of this international adoption and
the astonishing revelations that emerged when Nelson's birth family
finally relocated him in 1997. After recounting their early years
together, during which she and Tom welcomed the birth of a second
son, Derek, and created a family with both boys, Ward vividly
recalls the upheaval that occurred when members of Nelson's birth
family contacted them and sought a reunion with the boy they knew
as Roberto. She describes how their sense of family expanded to
include Nelson's Central American relatives, who helped her piece
together the lives of her son's birth parents and their clandestine
activities as guerrillas in El Salvador's civil war. In particular,
Ward develops an internal dialogue with Nelson's deceased mother
Mila, an elusive figure whose life and motivations she tries to
understand.
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