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A 36-year-old woman is calling on the public to help her find the person or people who rescued her from a Georgia dumpster in 1983.
Now, nearly 37 years later, Jones is searching for the people who rescued her from the dumpster on that winter day in January 1983 — and she’s hoping that the Facebook community might be able to help.
“Hi! My name is Amanda Jones. I am trying to find the person/people who potentially saved my life,” shewrote alongside the post. “I was abandoned as an infant at the Prado Business Mall at 5600 Roswell Rd (in Atlanta/Sandy Springs, GA) in January of 1983.”
Though Jones only knows limited details about her abandonment, time in a foster home and adoption, she says her parents Kay and Wayne, who adopted her as a 3-month-old, were always transparent with her about her life story.
“They were told ‘something about a dumpster,'” she told Yahoo! Lifestyle, adding that old newspaper articles in addition to her parents’ faint memories have helped her piece the scattered details together.
Her adoption records, however, remain sealed and difficult to uncover — they were not stored electronically at the time — and not many other officials know details of her discovery.
“Imagine if you were to walk into a library to get a book that you really wanted to read and the last chapter was missing,” she told theAJC. “That’s what my life has been like.”
The newspaper article about her.Facebook
To learn more about her past, Jones said she paid for DNA tests which helped determine some relatives’ identities, but she hasn’t been interested in locating her birth parents.
“I have done some DNA testing and have decided to respect the privacy of those involved who wish not to communicate with me,” she wrote on Facebook when asked if she would be interested in finding her birth parents.
Her first step was to go to the Fulton County Police Department last week and attempt to obtain a report from 1983, theAJCreports.
Jones was successful in doing so, thanks to Fulton County Police Lt. Scott McBride, and uncovered a file on microfilm. Unfortunately, not much was legible, besides a few words including “Braves blanket.”
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“I’m hoping one person reads this and says, ‘Oh my gosh, there she is!'” Jones added.
The mom of three also emphasized how their decision to help her ultimately changed her fate, as well as the life course of her loved ones.
“I want to thank the people who found me, from the bottom of my hearts and my parents’ hearts,” Jones told theAJC. “Whoever found me could have turned their back and said, ‘I’m not getting involved.’ They didn’t and as a result, they changed so many lives.”
source: people.com
