39 years later, parents and daughter are officially a family again
December 6, 2017
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as posted by the channelShe thought she was just getting a name change. Instead, her biological parents had an even better surprise in store for her.
Jessica Roth settled into a seat across from her attorney.
Tired and hungry after a 10-hour shift at Amazon that had ended at 5 a.m., all the Jeffersonville woman wanted to do was scrawl her signature on some court papers and head to lunch.
She shifted on the blue padded chair.
With a biological parent on either side, Jessica thought she was there to sign papers that would start the process of changing her name back to the one on her original birth certificate. She wasn’t entirely wrong.
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