Ep. - 1421 - SATURDAY SERIES: DAROLYN BELLEMEUR
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Darolyn Bellemeur was adopted in 1972 through a Jewish agency in Riverside, California. In her twenties, determined to learn the truth of her beginnings, she navigated closed records and bureaucracy until finally receiving a three-page letter from Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services in Los Angeles.
That letter — a simple packet of typed pages — unveiled a world of family history: a sixteen-year-old Jewish mother from Tennessee, a grandmother who controlled the adoption decision, siblings she had never known, and a teenage father of Irish descent. For the first time, Darolyn was given glimpses of the people and circumstances that shaped her life story. From those fragments, she pieced together clues, calling cemeteries, chasing down a last name, and finally connecting with her birth parents.
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| 0:20.0 | The Amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC and welcome back for this Saturday |
| 0:28.6 | series episode. |
| 0:29.6 | This week I received a most fascinating message on threads from a listener named Darylind Bellamure. |
| 0:36.6 | She was willing to share her adoption story with me, |
| 0:39.3 | and I was immediately struck, because as many of you know, I have long been drawn to stories of |
| 0:43.8 | adoption. Years ago, after meeting a cousin who had also been placed for adoption, I read The Girls |
| 0:50.6 | Who Went Away by Anne Fessler, a book that has never left me. It's one of my most |
| 0:55.4 | favorite podcast interviews as well. It peeled back the veil on the hidden, complicated histories |
| 1:00.8 | of adoption in America, and it made me even more attuned to the profound journeys of those who |
| 1:06.2 | seek their origin stories. Daryland's journey began in 1972 when she was adopted through a Jewish agency in Riverside, |
| 1:14.7 | California. |
| 1:16.3 | Like so many adoptees, she reached a point in her 20s where she needed to know, |
| 1:20.6 | Who am I? |
| 1:21.9 | Who did I come from? |
| 1:23.5 | But this was long before open records and DNA testing were common. |
| 1:31.5 | The system was sealed shut, and she was told no identifying information. |
| 1:33.0 | The door was locked. |
| 1:35.2 | But Darylund is persistent. |
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