GRANDVILLE, Mich. — A Facebook post from a Grandville family on New Year’s Day is getting thousands of shares as they try to find a “long-lost sister.” She was put up for adoption years before any of her siblings were born and now they want to meet her.
“We’ve grown up with each other, it’s always in the back of your mind,” Rachel Deckrow Rydbeck said. “Around Christmas time, when you’re with family and family is the focus, but there is another one of us out there.”
Her mother, Karen Deckrow, made the most difficult decision of her life 48 years ago — to give her baby up for adoption. She was a 20-year-old Central Michigan University student when she became pregnant.
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