{"id":1469,"date":"2020-04-23T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2025-02-07T15:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:55:43","slug":"at-long-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/23\/at-long-last\/","title":{"rendered":"At Long Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column1469_959c80-96 > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column1469_959c80-96 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column1469_959c80-96 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column1469_959c80-96 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column1469_959c80-96 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column1469_959c80-96 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column1469_959c80-96 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column1469_959c80-96{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column1469_959c80-96 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column1469_959c80-96 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column1469_959c80-96 dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1469_755183-f3, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1469_755183-f3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1469_755183-f3\"]{font-size:1.5rem;line-height:30px;font-weight:500;font-style:italic;font-family:proxima-nova;color:#808080;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1469_755183-f3 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1469_755183-f3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1469_755183-f3\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1469_755183-f3 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1469_755183-f3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1469_755183-f3\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading1469_755183-f3 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1469_755183-f3\">It\u2019s not so much what happened before. It\u2019s about managing the now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large wp-image-1470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"327\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.test.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Patrice-Martin-697x1024-1-327x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Patrice-Martin-697x1024-1-327x480.jpg 327w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Patrice-Martin-697x1024-1-170x250.jpg 170w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Patrice-Martin-697x1024-1.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Patrice Martin (left) with her sister, Sarah Murphy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Oct. 28, 1976, an infant, only hours old, lay abandoned in a Pittsburgh garbage bin. An anonymous call to the police would alert the authorities that she was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That baby was WilmU adjunct and Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) candidate Patrice Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin, who was adopted into a loving home five months after living in foster care, was always curious. She knew about her adoption early on and was grateful to be blessed with a loving family and good friends. It wasn\u2019t until her late 20s that her mother shared information about those first hours of her life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most people would, Martin wondered how a person could leave a newborn in a bin, though in her case, \u201clearning about it didn\u2019t come from a place where I didn\u2019t feel loved,\u201d she says. It was more curiosity than anything else, and she knew that chances of getting an answer or finding her birth mother and father were slim, let alone any blood relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May of 2018, when she tuned into a TLC network television show called \u201cLong Lost Family,\u201d an idea came to her. The show follows the stories of people who have experienced&nbsp;long-term separation from members of their&nbsp;family&nbsp;and want to reunite with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was an opportunity, Martin thought. \u201cI printed out the application and typed it up the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November of 2018, after months of back-and-forth communication, the show\u2019s producers finally agreed to do a segment on Martin. A DNA test through Ancestry.com found a match. In August of 2019, producers flew her to Pittsburgh to embark on a week of filming. On the last day, the viewers, as well as Martin, got to meet her long-lost sister, Sarah Murphy. The bond was instant; the emotion palpable. She also learned on the show that she had a brother, but she didn\u2019t meet him then. Months later, while meeting him, she discovered that she had another sister \u2014 and nephews to boot. The siblings are building a relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin is focused on a new chapter, she says. \u201cNow, it\u2019s just about forging ahead with new relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not so much what happened before. It\u2019s about managing the now. 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