Hannah Jennings’s birth parents were young high schoolers when they had her, back in 1999. At a tender age themselves, they kept the pregnancy a secret. The teen parents did what they felt was best for their baby: placing her with adoptive parents, and hoping they’d give her the life she deserved.
Eighteen years later, Hannah was able to meet her birth parents, Megan and Brent, in two wonderful and heartfelt reunions. Hers was a “semi-open” adoption, and Hannah always knew she had not one, but two sets of parents.
Hannah grew up with her adoptive parents, Leanne and Wayne, in Walla Walla, Washington. Wayne is a pharmacist, while Leanne was a preschool teacher before retiring a few years ago; their other daughter Katelyn, now 26, was also adopted. The couple approached their family situation with love and sensitivity…