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I FINDERSPhone reunion makes Mother’s Day extra specialSpecial to (heMolln Miranda eot a special surprise this Mother's Day. In addition to flowers and cards, she received a daughter and 10 grandchildren.In 1M1, Miranda and her infant daughter, Ululani, were living in the home of Demiecc Curran in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where Miranda was working as a live-in bouseclcaner. The two families became very close.Then the bombs fell. Curran and her family were evacuated to California, leaving Miranda and her daughter without a place to stay — so they moved in with Miranda’s parents in Honolulu. Unmarried and now unemployed. Miranda decided to let Ululani's godparents adopt the girl.After the adoption, Ululani's new family moved to the mainland. and Miranda lost track of her daughter. Miranda eventually married and had four other children, and she told them that they had a half-sister she couldn't find.Meanwhile, Curran was trying to bring everyone together. Now living in La Habra, she tracked down Ululam and re-established that relationship. Then she wrote to Finders, which she reads in rhe Orange County Register, in in effort to locate MirandaMiranda, now Molla MirandaHarvest, saw the letter in Honolulu's Mid-Week newspaper, and she responded right away. The telephone reunion with her daughter took place quickly.I'm happy to have Ululani back in my family, Harvest said I offered to go to the mainland to see her. but she said she would come here instead. It was so nice to speak with my daugh ter after all these years.Harvest and her daughter have talked at great length about a lifetime of important issues, and Curran lias shepherded the process.For a couple of days, a lot of pbone calls went back and forth, Girransaid Everybody Is thrilled to make contact after SO years. We talked about everything. They’re all such sweetpeople.Ululaani said Bemiece (Curran) has been my guardian angel.Ululani, whose last name is now Pszanka. has made it clear that she is grateful to her mother for the life that her adoptive parents gave her.My life has been very good, she said. “I've had a lot of exciting opportunities. I've had a good education. I'm married to a wonderful man, and I have 10 delightful children.These things wouldn’t be there for me had I not been given to my godparents. I'm very’gratefu her to hul to her, and I don’t want icr to have any regrets She gave me a life she should be very proud of.Dear Flnden: I was an Italian soldier during WWII, and I was captured by the Americans — Gen. Patton's Army — in North Africa. Wc were taken to a POW camp in Nebraska.When tbe war in Italy was over, the Italian government decided to collaborate with tbe Allies. The Italian brass told the POWs that we could work with the U-S. Army and be free soldiers once again, or wc could stay in the POW camp until the war was over.It was not a difficult choice for me. I thank Gcd that tbe Americans took me prisoner and brought me over hero. I was sent to Camp Shanks in New York, N Y. I was treated Just like the American soldiers and could come and go whenever my work at the camp was done.While I was there, Ida Sarro and her brother, Tom, gave me a ereat deal of moral support. They lived in Brooklyn, and I spent a lot of time at their house. They are of Italian heritage, and we had a great deal in common.I would like to find these people again and thank them for their kindness.- Oberdsn Tony Mirani. MurrietaOther searches: John Green of Fullerton seeks Larry Allen Earl, once of North Ogden. Utah; Susannc Sturgiss Pace of Huntington Beach seeks June Marshall, once of Swarthmore, Pa.; Percy Foster of Claremont seeks Curtis Smith, once of Cleveland.How to find someone: Finders is a nationwide column. To find someone, send a short letter 1200 or fewer words) to Finders Co EvansWord Inc., Office 307, Mowhawk Trail. Greenfield, Macs. 01302-4000. Include your name, address and phone number.
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Santa Ana Orange County Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Sun, Jul 03, 1994
Page 70
Full Page
Clipped by
Ruth C.
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