2 / A woman decides to find her newborn 13 years after leaving him on a business class plane seat.
Matthew Harris, turning to leave her child in her wake. As the years went by, Rhonda found it difficult to start over. It took her almost ten years of struggle to have a steady employment and a place to live. But every day she was plagued by the guilt of leaving her kid behind. Rhonda went to the police for assistance, determined to find Matthew and make apologies.
She was relieved to learn that Lincy, the flight attendant who had located her son, and her husband had adopted him. In an attempt to see her son, Rhonda wrote to Matthew’s adoptive mother, sharing her tale. When 13-year-old Matthew finally saw Rhonda, he was enraged and rejected her. How his biological mother could have left him was beyond him. Rhonda tried to explain herself to Matthew, but he just could not accept her as his mother.
But Matthew warmed up with time. Rhonda was allowed to visit him on the weekends, even though at first he refused to refer to her as “mom.” Their bond became stronger during the ensuing ten years. Now twenty-three and employed in New York as a data scientist, Matthew acknowledged Rhonda as his mother and forgave her, realizing that her acts were motivated by desperation. Rhonda’s life hasn’t stopped evolving.
She is thinking about getting married, but she wants to talk to Matthew about it first. She recently started dating a man named Andrew. Additionally, she made contact with Angela Bamford again, who was happy to find that Rhonda’s life had come full circle. Rhonda was able to reconstruct her life and restore her relationship with her son, whom she had previously believed to be lost forever, with the help of individuals in her immediate vicinity and perseverance.
