American, abandoned 60 years ago in a telephone booth, learned the secret of his birth - ForumDaily
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An American thrown 60 years ago in a telephone booth, learned the secret of his birth

When bread delivery men opened the door to a telephone booth on a cold morning in 1954, they found a child crying and had no idea how he got there. It took 64 years and a DNA test for the “boy with blue eyes” to solve the mystery.

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By 64-years, his eyes darkened and became brown, but then Phoenix Dennis was about 2 months old, without any documents and information, where he came from and whose parents or relatives.

The birth certificate indicated the place where he was found on a cold morning: a phone booth outside Yielky's Drive-In on US 22, a former restaurant not far from Lancaster. He was wrapped in a blanket and lay in a cardboard box. In the booth, he lay for about three or four hours before being noticed.

For many years, Dennis could not believe the truth of this story. Everything was too far-fetched. He also never expected to find out about her biological mother or information about what made her leave her child in an Ohio phone booth. Despite the many unknowns in this story, Dennis, after 64 of the year, was able to find and meet his mother.

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Dennis remembers adoptive parents, Stanley and Vivian Dennis, from about three years old. They did not hide from the boy that he was not their own son.

“Luckily, my parents told me early on that I was adopted, probably from the time I was three,” he said.

However, the parents did not tell the son how and where he was found. He found out about this when he was 15 or 16.

At first, police weren't sure whether he was a kidnapping victim or planted. The police were not looking for the child's parents. At that time, the Eagle-Gazette published several articles that described this event. One of them wrote: “... the child was alive, but very cold, and a full bottle of milk was found next to the child. The bottle was also cold. The child’s physical condition was good.”

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After the publication of the first article, dozens of people showed interest in adopting a boy. Dennis was placed in a foster home, and then in February 1955 of the year. They moved to Arizona and settled there.

“When I was 18 or 19, I went to Lancaster to look at it,” Dennis said, adding that there wasn’t a lot of information out there at the time.

He decided to forget about his history for many years, until his two daughters, 18 and 14, entered his DNA test on Ancestry.com, which determines ethnicity and can find genetic relatives. The results came in January, and then a message from a person who also uses Ancestry.com, who genetically matched Dennis. This man, he later learned, was his cousin.

“He said, ‘I think I know who your mother is. We heard throughout our lives that there was a child, our relative, but he was left in a phone booth,’” Dennis recalled.

Cousin Dennis tied him up with a sister who lives in Baltimore. She said she heard the story too.

To verify the story, his sister conducted her own DNA test, confirming her family ties. Afterwards, she contacted their mother, who also lives in Baltimore.

“My mother finally said she wanted to meet me,” Dennis recalls. - Slowly, week after week, she said: “I remember.”

It turned out that her mother was then 18 years old. The woman was forced to give the child to his father, saying that he would marry her if they left the child. The couple traveled from Kenutkki through Ohio when the woman gave birth to a baby in the hospital. When they returned to Maryland, the boy’s father picked him up and left him in a telephone booth. After that, the father disappeared, and the mother married the other and gave birth to two daughters.

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