“As far as I was concerned, my adopted parents were my real parents,” he said.
Yet there was curiosity. For instance, standing in line at the bank, he’d look in the faces of those around him and wonder, “Could he be my dad?”
“I didn’t have that familiarity of looking at someone and seeing myself in their face,” he said. “I would look at my friends and you could just see the mother in the daughter.”
As he aged and doctors asked for his medical history, there was again a nagging thought that he should try to find his biological connections.
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Adopted at birth, Worthington man finds biological family
Tom Christian used the COVID-19 lockdown to begin searching for his biological parents. He discovered so much more. 5:00 am, Mar. 10, 2021 ×
Tom Christian holds a portrait sequence showing his maternal great-grandfather Ernest DeKalb Williford (from left), paternal grandfather Jimmie Goins, biological father Mike Goins and a photo of himself as a child. (Julie Buntjer / The Globe)
WORTHINGTON While some people decided to learn a new language or develop a new hobby during the early days of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a rural Worthington man tracked down his biological parents.
Tom Christian grew up knowing that both he and his older brother, John, were adopted. His parents never made a secret of it, though when he’d ask them the occasional question about the people who gave him away, they always deflected.
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