Lost At Two

                                                                                             

 Lost At Two

          Jane Brown was adopted at the age of two  years old still being in diapers.  She was adopted out 

of the state of Illinois, into the state of Indiana.  She was raised with the belief that she was a Brown 

living out in the country with a judge as a father.  So, she never had any money problems, and any 

reason to believe she was anything, but a Brown. 

            When she got older, she was married, and working in a factory minding her own business.  It

was towards the end of the working day when a message came over the loudspeaker that her sister was

there.  Jane did not even know she had a sister, and she ran out of the building with her arms waving 

in the air.  Once she got home she told her mother what had happened, who told her she had been 

adopted, and that her real mother was a witch and her real father a drunk.  She was told to stay away 

from her real family for they were bad news.  Jane made the promise to her mother that she would do 

what she could. to stay away from them. 

             

                 Her brother, Patrick Malhoon, met her husband at a five and dime restaurant.  He explained 

everything to him there asking to meet Jane and the children.  This her husband, Dale Birthright, 

agreed to, after all, he did not know about any agreement Jane had with her mother.  Dale escorted 

Patrick to their house, out in the country, up on the hill.  Where they lived in an A-frame house that 

Dale had built.

                  At first Jane was frightened due to what her mother had told her.  After a while she calmed 

down since her husband was there, and would not let any harm come to Jane or the kids.  After all Dale

 had brought the man in and would let no harm come to the house he had built.  Patrick told her that 

there was seven children in all, and that their biological last name was Goody.

                    Patrick told her that their father's real name was Newton Goody.  He then said that their 

mother's real name was Maria.  He told her that Maria went into a sanitarium for alcoholism, while

 Newton just rode off into the sunset with a bottle of alcohol in his hand.    He left the kids with the 

neighbors crying and screaming their heads off for they did not know what was going on.  The 

neighbors could not take care of that many children for to long, so they called the police on child 

abandonment.  The police came putting the children into states custody causing trauma in the children's

life.  

                     The Goody children were supposed to be adopted out by twos, but this wish was not 

fulfilled.  It was hard enough finding homes for the seven children who were not newborns.  They were 

therefore, put into individual homes.  This left them to find each other as they got older on their own if 

they wanted to.  This did finally happen, but Jane's Mother Brown was not in the least bit happy about 

it.    This in fact got Jane cut out of the will.

Paul D. Eccles