Shayla and her twin brother Thomas were adopted as babies by a family from Calgary who later moved to Trinidad. Their two older sisters had already been adopted by other families and remained in the Toronto area. Because of difficult circumstances and legal troubles, their birth parents had lost custody of the children early in their li…Continue Reading
As she grew older, Shayla always knew the names of her birth parents and stayed quietly aware of them through Facebook. Over time, she followed her birth mother’s page, hoping one day it might help her reconnect with her biological family.
A few months ago, Shayla’s adoptive mother noticed someone on the page who looked a lot like Shayla. That discovery helped lead Shayla to her older sister Seleena, and then to her oldest sister Samantha, opening the door to long-lost family connections.
Through those reunions, Shayla was also finally able to find her birth father, a former Vietnamese boat refugee who had come to Canada alone. What began as quiet searching over the years became a meaningful family reconnection that had once seemed