birth mother
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He learned his birth mother was buried in a pauper’s grave at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa, with “nothing to mark her grave but an upside-down horseshoe that has her name in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
One is his long-estranged birth mother, who at last shows up in Alphy’s life for an auspicious celebration but may not be entirely ready to embrace him.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
Kelly said that while she was scared of her birth mother, "there is a very strange thing that no one understands unless you've been a child in that position".
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Leo's birth mother, Rachel Fisher, said her son "didn't have a bad bone in his body".
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
Here we were—my adopted parents, my birth mother, my half sister, and a stranger my mother needed for support—courteously sitting across from one another.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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