Happy Birthday Sabrina

Today is my youngest sisters 15th birthday. I can't believe she's fifteen already. She has been through so much in her short life and it still amazes me that she turned out as well as she did.

Here is alittle background on all that she has been through. (First off it's important for you to know before reading this that she is not my blood sister, she is my stepfathers daughter from a previous relationship.) Back in 1993 my stepfather was dating a woman that had become pregnant with my stepsister. At the time she just disappeared and did not tell him that they had conceived a child together. On June 4th 1994 my stepsister was born and my stepfather was named on the birth certificate. (At the time the father did not have to be present to be listed on the birth certificate) Shortly after my stepfather ran into the ex while she was out with Sabrina and that is when he first learned he was a father. He had tried on many occasions to visit and spent time with my sister but the ex would have none of it. She was constantly moving and he was always unable to locate her. Later she married and had two other children (2 little boys). At one point she contacted my stepfather and asked him to sign away his rights so that her new husband could adopt Sabrina. My stepfather refused and insisted on seeing Sabrina to no avail. Years went by with no contact between the two, and while my father continued to search for her he never had any luck. In 2005 my stepfather was served child support papers while at work and eagerly responded. He went to court on the assigned date to see about getting some sort of custody and to his disbelief learned of all the horrible things my little sister had gone through. Her mother and the man she had married had divorced. Her mother had become a hooker and a drug user and was randomly dropping Sabrina and her two brothers off at a local burger king that had a play center inside. Finally after years of doing this she just never came back and the kids were taken by the state to be put in foster care. At the time we had learned of this, Sabrina and her brothers were in there 2nd foster home living only 5 miles from where we lived at the time. Two months of paper work and Sabrina was taken from the foster home and able to come live with my mother and step father. Unfortunately since the boys were un related to us they would not allow us to take them as well. They remained in the foster home for a year before they were able to be adopted. Both boys were adopted out to the same home but the older one Kenneth tried to kill himself and was quickly removed and placed in a mental facility, where he remains today. The younger of the boys James was adopted by a gay man with lots of money that has since spoiled him rotten and given the life he deserves. As for Sabrina she has had to overcome alot in her 4 years of living with her father and my mother. Although she has many more years of therapy to cope with all that she has been through and all that she has seen, she has still turned out to be a wonderful person. And I am proud to call her my little sister.