万花筒 2009-02-01&02-02 失散母子网上重逢

Thirty two years ago,

 

"I was young and barely¹ surviving."

 

Terri Fuller put her two-year-old son up for adoption².

 

"I felt he needed a family. "

 

Her aunt said she knew a couple who couldn't have kids.

 

"Then I took him to California, Red Bluff³ and my aunt, I walked in the door and as soon as we did, she took him and took him to his new family."

 

It was a day Terri never forgot and always regretted.

 

"There was still that void⁴ of not having him there and I’d often wanted to look for him, but... "

 

And for years, she did, but it wasn't until she created a profile on MySpace with a note she wanted to meet her son that her luck changed.

 

"I got on the computer and there was this message. It just says, ‘Hi, I'm Rustin Hawver, H-A-W-V-E-R. I think I am the one you are looking for, the one you wanna meet. Please let me know if I'm wrong.' because I had it spelled as H-A-V-E-R."

 

Her son hundreds of miles away actually stumbled⁵ upon her page because of a typo. He missed the W in his last name while searching for his blog.

 

"That's correct. She had my name misspelled. If it wasn't for Google or that keyboard being messed up, I would never have found that."

 

Rustin, now an adult, couldn't be happier.

 

"It has set my mind at ease, lifted a weight off my heart and allowed me to breathe knowing bits and pieces of who I am as now I'm finally in there. "

 

"Can’t wait to see him and put my arms around him and let him know that I never did forget him. My heart never forgot."
 

1 barely   

adv.仅仅，几乎没有，几乎不

参考例句：

• The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
• He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。

2 adoption   

n.采用，采纳，通过；收养

参考例句：

• An adoption agency had sent the boys to two different families.一个收养机构把他们送给两个不同的家庭。
• The adoption of this policy would relieve them of a tremendous burden.采取这一政策会给他们解除一个巨大的负担。

3 bluff   

v.虚张声势，用假象骗人；n.虚张声势，欺骗

参考例句：

• His threats are merely bluff.他的威胁仅仅是虚张声势。
• John is a deep card.No one can bluff him easily.约翰是个机灵鬼。谁也不容易欺骗他。

4 void   

n.空虚，空白，真空；adj.空的，缺乏的，无效的；vt.清空，释放，取消，离开；vi.排泄

参考例句：

• Suddenly the street was void of people.街道上突然间空无一人。
• The treaty has been declared void.条约被宣布无效。

5 stumbled   

v.（不顺畅地）说( stumble的过去式和过去分词 )；跌跌撞撞地走；绊脚；（说话、演奏等）出错

参考例句：

• I stumbled and sprained my ankle. 我摔了一跤，把脚脖子扭了。
• The child stumbled and fell. 孩子绊了一下，摔倒了。