A New Cousin For Me And A New Cousin For Her

A Rabbi said “The Will of a Person shows his or her personality.”

Does this mean that a person that is someone that is a good person and raises a child,he or she will have a good child?

The same personality may be inherited by the child because she sees the goodness in her parent.

I know someone who adopted many years ago, a three week old child. She always wanted to be a mother and now her chance had come. A co-worker knew of a teen who did not want the baby and M got to adopt this darling little girl.

She became a single Mom and this is what she wanted. She and the child had a good life and as a teen, they traveled to many countries. The Mom and A had a loving relationship and she appreciated the life she had over the life she would not have had.

I looked her up on the internet knowing the Mom’s name and it showed me some lines and It said she was deceased and survived by her daughter A and the Mom had been a PHD and was a professor in a college.

I looked up on the internet and I emailed her and she was so happy to hear from me. She told me all about M and what a loving relationship she had with her and mother and daughter relationship and that now she was engaged to be married and she hoped I would keep in touch on the internet.

She was my cousin, her Mom was my first cousin and we had grown up together living only 6 blocks away. My Mom and M’s Dad were brother and sister.

Life gets interesting by having the internet and how many folks you get to meet . Some are strangers and others can be relatives.

So the will of a person, me, through my personality of always wanting to learn and I found someone I knew. We shall be cousins from afar, but bound by knowing M, M was my cousin and this A is her daughter.

Believe in your potential and there is creativity within us. I felt like I had taken an inventory of my life finding this person who was adopted by my cousin Minna and her name is Althea.

Elita Sohmer Clayman