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Joyce Van Der Hoeven's success story

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dutch Report 22 Oct 2005 10:41

hello to you all first of all i would like to thank who help me ,i hadnt seen two of my sons for 17yrs and 4yrs she gave me address to put in the paper,but nothing then afew weeks ago a old friend of mine seen my oldest son and told him i had been looking for him,two days later he rang one of his other brothers and they went to liverpool to see him,it seems the xmas cards we had been sending did,nt get to his ex wife and my grandkids ,so i wrote to explain why i had never called as i thought they had moved,then on the monday i got alovely email from my grandaughter who was 10 when i last saw her and now shes 25 his sister is 19 and her brother is 24,so i had anew knee 4 weeks ago so as soon as i cand im going to see them all,can you imagained after 17yrs what its like to see ones oldest son .i know im going to cry but they have sent me some lovely photos ,and i have another grandson i did,nt no i had. so now i have 22 grandchildren and in march im going to be great grandmother again what more can you ask,just had to tell this everyone as im so happy.joyce from holland