GERARD CHRISTIAN ZACHER: OFFICIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY SITE

MY BIOLOGICAL FAMILY - THE MIRACLE

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THIS PAGE IS DEDICATED TO MY BIOLOGICAL FAMILY WHOM I HAD HAD SPENT LITERALLY A LIFETIME TRYING TO FIND - ONLY TO BE FOUND BY THEM INSTEAD! THIS HAS BEEN NOTHING SHORT OF A MIRACLE! DETAILS & PHOTOS BELOW!

DISCLAIMER TIME: TO PROTECT MY BIO FAMILY FROM MY STALKERS AND FROM PAPARRAZI WHO WOULD NOT HAVE THEIR INTERESTS IN MIND, I CANNOT REVEAL THEIR LAST NAMES TO THE PUBLIC AT THIS TIME.

Once You've Read The History Of Being Found By My Bio Mother, Read The Story Below That - Of My Successful Visit To Meet All My Biological Family (On My Mother's Side, That Is) In Person For The VERY FIRST TIME! I LITERALLY Just Got Back From That First Visit TODAY, As A Matter Of Fact!!

BTW: MOM IS PUBLICITY-SHY, SO, OUT OF RESPECT, I CANNOT SHOW ANY PHOTOS THAT OFFER A CLEAR VIEW OF HER FACE. WISH I COULD - JUST BECAUSE OF HOW HAPPY & PROUD I AM TO BE REUNITED WITH HER & EVERYONE AFTER 38 YEARS OF MYSTERY!

I Knew Absolutely NOTHING About My Biological Parents / Family. I Was Adopted Literally Right At Birth. My Adoptive Parents Forbade Me To Ask Any Questions About My Biolgical Family, And I Got Severely Punished Whenever I Did...Which Was A Lot Because I Felt I HAD To Know. In Fact, They Went Quite Out Of Their Way To Keep Any And All Information About My True Origins From Me.
 
All The While, I Yearned With All My Heart To Know The Truths And Solve What Would Always Be The Biggest Mystery Of My Life. The Questions Forever Burned Inside Of Me...What Were Their Names? What Were They Like? Who Did I Look Like? What Interests / Skills / Talents / Gifts Did I Inherit From Them? Who Was I Like? When I Grew Older, I Tried To Find Things Out Via The Hospital I Was Born In, City Hall, Etc., But That Was Like Trying To Get Answers From A Brick Wall.
 
Later Still, When Computers Became Household Items And I Learned How To Use The Internet, I Made One Final Effort And Signed Up With A Variety Of Adoption Reunion Sites. But For Years, Nothing Ever Turned Up...Until One Day...
 
Literally On Thanksgiving Day, 2004, I Checked My Email As Usual. And There Was An Email From A Woman Claiming To Have Found Me On One Of Those Adoption Reunion Sites Who May Just Be My Biological Mother! All Her Information Matched Mine!
She Sent Me Both Toddler Photos And Adult Photos Of The Three Sons She Had From A Man She Met And Married A Year After I Was Born And Given Up. Though We Looked Different As Adults, Looking At Their Toddler And Childhood Photos Was Almost Exactly Like Looking At My Own! They Looked JUST LIKE ME. It Was UNCANNY. It Was The Same When I Saw Her Own Younger Photos As Well! There Was An Undeniable Resemblance!
 
For Some Unknown Reason, My Aging Adoptive Father Mailed Me My Actual Adoption Papers To Me Here - My New Home - Los Angeles, California. These Adoption Papers Had been Hidden In A Lockbox In Chicago All This Time (Unlike My Kid Sister's - My Adoptive Sister Adopted From Another Family At HER Birth When I Was 5 Years Old. HER Papers Were EASILY Found After The Unfortunate, Sad Death Of My Adoptive Mother To Cancer in 1991.) The Papers Proved That Woman WAS INDEED My Biological Mother! And Her Sons Were My Biological Half-Brothers! I Never Knew What It Was Like Having Brothers...Just A Sister. I Was Still The Oldest Sibling Of BOTH Families, But It Was Great To Know There Were Others!
 
Now...The Only Mystery Left Is My Biological Father. My Mother Knows Not His Whereabouts Or How To Find Him, But The Search IS On! It Is My New Quest. We Will See How It Turns Out!
 
I Have Enjoyed Getting To Know My Mother, Her Husband, & Half-Brothers As Well As Possible Via Telephone & Internet.
 
But While I Was In Chicago Visiting My Adoptive Family This Last April, 2007, ONE Of My 3 Brothers - Barry - The Youngest -  Was Able To Drive Out & Visit Me Along With His Wife, Theresa, & Baby Son, Jonah!
 
Below Is A Copy Of An Email I Had Written About The Experience & You Can See The Photos I Mention From That Day Below As Well!

These  photos were taken by Theresa, my bio half-brother's wife. (Barry - the youngest of my half-brothers) He was the only one who was able to make it THIS time. These pics were from the day we first met in person while I was in Chicago. (I just wish we had taken more of them with the family in it, but there is time for that and then some) They drove over from Lansing, Michigan to meet me.
The other pic with ALL of us was taken by our waiter. As you can see...I blinked, damnit! So, I look stupid in that pic! Theresa had never seen downtown Chicago and especially wanted to see Michigan Ave - where my high school area was. And Barry all but insisted we have STUFFED pizza - something you don't find out here in California. And CHICAGO-STYLE stuffed pizza is the BEST stuffed pizza! I should know because I grew up on it in Chicago. So, since I haven't been able to have stuffedpizza out here in LA for almost 9 years, I seconded Barry's motion! The pizza was SOOOOOO gooooooood!!!
In a couple of pictures Theresa took a few pics from across the table of me. The baby - my nephew, Jonah, looks so much like ME when I was a baby!!!! But Jonah has red-eye in this photo. Makes him look like a devil baby (LOL), but he is NOT - he is an ANGEL! When we went into the Disney Store on Michigan Ave, I asked if Jonah had any Disney toys yet. They said he did not. I told them it was time to fix that! I snuk off and bought him a mini-stuffed Mickey Mouse. It was fitting for ME to give him his very first Disney toy because I was the one in the family who had WORKED for Disney (for 4 years). And I was PROUD to do it! I gave it to him and he loved it and started clapping. Barry and Theresa said he clapped because he does that whenever he watches a certain Mickey Mouse show on the Disney Channel at home, so he recognized Mickey. He would not let go of him, and I'm told he sleeps with his Mickey every night now. That makes me feel GREAT! I'm a very proud uncle!
The COOLEST thing, though, was when they first arrived to pick me up at Sandy (my stepmother - for those of you who don't know or don't remember, Dad got re-married after Mom (my adoptive Mom) died) and Dad's house. Everyone talked to each other and my Dad and Sandy even enjoyed playing with my nephew. It was GREAT to see people from BOTH my adoptive family and biological family interacting with each other in a good way. VERY heart-warming...a sight I NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER thought I'd ever see! I hope it is not the last!

After communicating with my mother and brothers and stepdad for quite awhile only by email and phone (with the exception of Barry & his family), I FINALLY got my BIG chance this past week to meet them ALL in person for the VERY...FIRST...TIME!!! (July 2nd to July 10th, 2007). Apparantly, my bio family has 2 annual family reunion holiday celebrations. 1 is on the 4th of Juy (the one I just attended). The other is Thanksgiving (which you BET I will be attending this winter).
 
Once I flew out to Florida to meet & join Mom and her husband - my stepdad, we all traveled by road trip to Clint's place (my oldest younger brother - if that makes any sense) in Kentucky to meet and bond for the week. And we would all head back on the 9th.
 
Meeting Mom was a dream come true! I turned the corner of the airport corridor and almost ran right into her. We hugged instantly, and it was strange - in the best of ways - to FINALLY look at her and know that THIS was the woman who had actually carried me in her stomach as a fetus for 9 months and brought me into the world!! I got CHILLS, though I kept it to myself. My stepdad was also beyond welcoming and also considers me the same as one of his own sons (my half-brothers..though I do not think of them at ALL as "half". They are my BROTHERS...PERIOD from here on).
 
Meeting my brothers after the long road trip with Mom and Stepdad from Florida to Kentucky was more fulfilling than I could POSSIBLY have imagined! Everyone was there - with the exception of Barry's daughter Alyssa, who was unable to make it. My 3 brothers were there, their wives, and my neice, Melissa, nephews John and Aaron, and baby nephews Jonah (Barry's son), and Caden (Kevin's son). They were ALL EXTREMELY welcoming, supportive, and considered me and treated me as if I'd been an equal prt of the family my entire life! I felt nothing but warmth and happiness - more content than I had ever felt before.
 
They all got along GREAT and actually DID things together and included me in them - such as joy-riding, playing video games, board games, visiting family friends, going shopping, and sight-seeing. These people are GLAD to be around each other and it SHOWS!! This was a kind of close-knit, loving family-life I had not experienced in my own childhood. This made me feel INCREDIBLE!! I really do have a family...two families now, actually (if I DO find my bio father, there's a chance I will have 3, but I'm not holding my breathe since no one knows anything about him - at least not enough to go on to find hm, but now, suddenly, I am in no great rush for that. My mom's family makes me feel plenty content on their own!! 
 
MORE DETAILS ON THIS TRIP SOON TO COME WHEN I GET MORE REST FROM ALL THE TRAVELLING!! LOL!
 
Here are some photos from this trip - this trip that changed my life and ME forever!!  

HERE ARE SOME SOLO PICS FROM MY TRIP TO MY FAMILY'S CELEBRATION:

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