Sherwin Moscovitch of Regina, Saskatchewan, had know for decades that he had been adopted, but around his 35th birthday, he discovered the real circumstances of his birth. His adoptive parents, Jenny and Perry Moscovitch, had shared with him that he had been adopted around the time he was five. It had never bothered Sherwin because he felt his adoptive parents had been great parents to him and his other adopted siblings. When his adoptive father got sick in 1999, Sherwin began thinking more seriously about trying to find his biological parents. He decided to begin by checking the library. There he found a headline that read: “Baby Found Abandoned in Car.” The article explained that on March 23, 1964, a doctor who had been called into the hospital for an emergency was heading home. Upon opening his car door, he was bewildered to find a paper bag on the seat. Thinking someone was pulling a prank on him, he opened the bag. Inside was a newborn baby. The child was wrapped in a blanket, wearing only a diaper. Sherwin immediately drove to Social Services and showed the staff the photo in the article. They told him he was likely not the abandoned baby. Disappointed, he headed back to his office, but a few minutes after he arrived, he received a call from Social Services, asking him to come back. Sherwin knew instantly that he was the abandoned baby. From there, he managed to make contact with the doctor and the police officer who had been in charge of the investigation. It wasn’t until 2016, when Sherwin sent in a DNA sample to a company that he discovered he actually had two half-siblings in Saskatchewan. Sherwin met with his half-brother, but his brother was unable to tell him who his birth mother was. Sherwin says people ask him all the time what he would say to his birth mother if he could talk to her. “I just want to say thank you,” said Sherwin. “If she hadn’t left me in that doctor’s car, my life as I know it would have been erased. If she’s reading this now, thanks from the bottom of my heart.”
