when i heard that, i felt sick. physically sick. plus i need $50. is this an illegal adoption? i would have never imagined that in order for me to keep my baby, i would have to lie on a birth certificate. i never even imagined that i was capable of doing that. but i just, i had bonded with my baby. and i was sure that would be the last lie i would ever have to tell. we agreed, okay, we ll do it. we waited two or three days. and then medhat went and picked
submit dna evidence, we will get our documents back and our case will be considered abandoned. i m thinking, thank god. i traveled alone to be with my mother and marco stays with medhat. the surgery was a success and they removed all of the cancer. she s recuperating. she s doing good. we were all so happy about that. i got back to cairo and we just felt like now we can move forward with our life. so we were looking forward to having our first christmas with marco. so i had just finished putting up the christmas lights. all of a sudden we hear, bam, bam, bam! really loud.
maze. and they took medhat. they told me, you know sit down. i hear, i hear this raised voices. constant yelling and maybe i even heard slamming on the table. i said, where s head mat? what are you doing with him? they just looked at me like i thought to myself, are they going to torture him? it just terrifies me. then they brought me into this room. it was dark. they were all on their cell phones. all i could hear was, susan
so medhat and marco and i go back to theresa s. theresa said, i m going to help you. medhat and i will go and get the letter, and you stay here with marco. we come back in one hour. that next morning, medhat and i brought the letter to the embassy. as nervous, scared as i was, there was still that shred of hope, we re going to go there and they re going to give us the passport. we dropped it off at the desk. and i felt all of a sudden there was a mood change. do you have any pictures of when you were pregnant? pictures?
they took me back out of the room. at this point, i don t know where medhat us. right at the bottom of the stairs, there was a big black metal door. i don t know what s on the other side of that door. i didn t know if it was just like a solitary confinement. bam! and a clang and a as i m going into the cell, i realize, they re probably going to take him from me. i had to start accepting that in my mind. i just was thanking god, you know, that i had the opportunity, you know, to be a mother.