Mother, I’d love to know what you are like

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I was born on that date in a house in either Collins Avenue or Clonliffe Road in Dublin. I was two or three days old when I was handed over to my adopted parents. I only found this out last year, otherwise I would have looked for my natural mother before.

I was registered in my adopted parents' names and re-christened Theresa Marion, so I never realised that I had another name. My birth name, I have just discovered, is Margaret O'Grady.

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