Fr. Michael Arey, Associate Pastor at St. Philip's in Bemidji, recounts his personal adoption story to Tom Lano. His unwed mother rejected marriage, choosing to return to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to give birth before continuing her Hollywood career. At five weeks old, Fr. Mike was adopted. When he was eighteen, he read a letter from his birth mother. Near the end of his college years, he met her, which led to discovering the source of his artistic traits and other relatives, including a y...
Fr. Michael Arey, Associate Pastor at St. Philip's in Bemidji, recounts his personal adoption story to Tom Lano. His unwed mother rejected marriage, choosing to return to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to give birth before continuing her Hollywood career. At five weeks old, Fr. Mike was adopted. When he was eighteen, he read a letter from his birth mother. Near the end of his college years, he met her, which led to discovering the source of his artistic traits and other relatives, including a younger brother. "Every day is a gift," Fr. Mike declares and he is always eager to hear other adoption stories.
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