One 60-year-old white lady came up to me with tears rolling down her cheeks. She held my hand and said, I was one of them. I took the children away from their parents. I am sorry. I thought we were doing the right thing"
I wasn't angry. My heart was filled with love.
I hugged her and said, Thank you for coming.'
At the age of five, Donna Meehan was taken away from her large and loving Aboriginal family at Coonamble NSW and sent to be the only child of a white family in distant Newcastle. Tiny and vulnerable, she had to try to make sense of her strange new world and the loss of everything she had known and loved.
Despite the true and enduring love of her adoptive parents, and of her soulmate husband, Ron, the loss of her sense of belonging brought Donna close to suicide. Only when she traced her birth family could her healing begin.
It is no Secret is an honest book with much sadness in it, but thanks to Donna's resilience and forgiveness, it is ultimately uplifting. This is a story about hope and grace and the indomitable strength of the human spirit.