Photo Gallery: Beyond Opening Day

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Stephanie Mays Staats: I have it. It’s here! I called my mother Sharon Mereweather Miller right away. Absolutely surreal to see in print who WE were before adoption. Love you, mom., February 6, 2020

Annette O’Donnell, spokesperson, NYARC, Treasurer, Bastard Nation

Susan Ito: “GOT MY OBC, bastards!”…Last night, after 40 years of waiting, I got my original birth certificate from the State of New York, thanks to the tireless efforts of New York Adoptee Rights Coalition. I never really thought this day would come. It was a bittersweet moment. So many adoptees in other states, and intercountry adoptees, are still waiting. May the day come soon that we all have this very basic of human rights: to know where, when and to whom we were born.

I’m kind of sad in a way because, not only have I lost my adoptive parents, I’m going to cry, but my biological mother died in 2015,” Terry said. “And had this bill come sooner I would have been able to meet her. And that makes me really sad.” WHEC-TV Rochester

Harry Theopheles–Proud Bastard

Anne Mo

OBC has arrived at last. I’ve always wanted to know what time I was born and my birth weight. Also my mother’s age: 15. Now I know.

Patti Dorer Aliventi: It’s finally here! I have to say New York City impressed me. Not just my original birth certificate, but the order of adoption too

Update October 7, 2020