The Sixty Year Secret - Hardcover

by Doris Dhayer (Author)

At seventy plus, Doris Dhayer confronts the secret she has guarded since 1964: as a frightened teenager, she gave birth to a son and surrendered him for adoption under social and family pressure. Moving through a turbulent Pittsburgh childhood, marriage, motherhood, devastating loss, and hard won faith, Doris reveals how silence shaped her life. Six decades later, a granddaughter's DNA test uncovers the truth and reconnects Doris with the son she never stopped loving. Told through Doris, her daughter, and her son, this memoir follows shame, sacrifice, grief, forgiveness, and an unexpected reunion that transforms a painful secret into healing.