Penny was adopted. Her search for her birth mother has involved mistaken identity, heartache and joy.
One busy day in 1963 in the maternity ward of Melbourne's Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, staff listed the wrong birth mother on the adoption papers of newborn Penny Mackieson. It was likely an oversight by staff stretched by the constant demands of mothers, newborns and staff. But it would have far-reaching consequences on numerous lives, especially Penny's.
"I felt the loss of people who were important in my life and the loss of thinking that's who I was." With the DNA test results in hand, Penny went to an adoption information service and asked them to look for Greek mothers in hospital at the time she was born. They found her mother, who was alive and living in Greece and reached out to her, but she wanted no contact and refused to do a DNA test; shame among mothers who gave birth out of wedlock in the 1960s cut deep.
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