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“She told me that my dad was really abusive to her, and that he was running around with other women,” Evans said. “She said that he told her to get out, and she went back to get us, but my dad said, ‘You’re not taking the kids’ and that was the end of that. She never tried again after that.”
Meeting Plan
The next big step was for Linda to plan a visit to Yukon to her mother’s house. She wanted to meet her and see her after 52 years. So much had passed. Linda herself was 59 years old now and Lucy was 77 years old.
Excited
Linda was more than excited to meet her mother. She told to the Canadian Post, “I don’t remember much about my mother. When my father remarried, me and Daniel were not allowed to bring up [her] name. So all I was left with were two little pictures … and one bigger one. That is all I knew of my mother.”
Yukon
It was finally the day to fly to Yukon for Linda. “As I got older, I thought she must be dead, maybe even murdered,” Linda admitted. And her only doubt today was if her mother would be able to recognize her after so many years?
A Hug
Linda flew from Vancouver to White Horse to reunite with her mother. Lucy immediately recognized Linda because they had very similar faces. “I went downstairs, my mom grabbed me, gave me a big hug and said, ‘I love you,'” Evans said.
Similar
After meeting her mother after so long, Linda said, “I don’t know how to describe it—it was, like, surreal because I could see my face in her face, and her eyes in my eyes,” Linda said, before adding in one very big difference between the two, “I wouldn’t take off on any of my kids the way she had to.”