Lin immediately knelt down and said to her foster parents, “Thank you for taking care of me, without you, there is no me.”  

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/11/23
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Twenty-nine-year-old Lin Ching-mei (林靜玫) walked into the

“Thank you for taking care of me, without you, there is no me,” she said. (By Central News Agency)

Pingtung office of Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF) in early November and told social work supervisor Huang Shu-ling (黃淑玲) that she wished to find her foster parents, who took care of her 20 years ago. The supervisor lifted through a pile of forms that had turned yellow through age and found that her foster father Chang Hung-chi (張鴻祺) and foster mother Kuo Ching-ching (郭巾錦) are still providing foster care. On November 8, Lin finally met them for the first time in 20 years. She was on her knees with tearful eyes while she thanked them.

On the day Lin walked into the TFCF’s Pingtung office, she told Huang that she had come to Pingtung from Taichung three times in the past in a bid to find her foster parents, but as her memories of 20 years ago were so sketchy that she had no luck of finding the home of her foster parents no matter how hard she tried, so she went back to Taichung with tears in her eyes every time. As she was so young when she was placed with the foster parents, she couldn’t remember through which agency the placement was arranged until when she heard her colleagues talking about the TFCF it struck her “I am a TFCF foster child.” Therefore, she made another trip to Pingtung again, hoping to find her foster parents through TFCF’s Pingtung office.    [FULL  STORY]