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Michel D. Jose (help)
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Date Posted: 01:11:13 12/25/07 Tue
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To Nagmamahal Kapamilya,
I have watched your show since it aired on tv. I have seen how you grant so many wishes that changed many lives and I can stop myself crying because I felt how you touched and helped countless people.
I attempted many times to write in your show but it was only this time that I got the courage to do it.
Below is a letter I made intended not only for your show but for all. This was sent everywhere worldwide, and believing in your show, I know that I have to send this also to you.
As a loving wife to my husband I, Michel D. Jose, would like to publicly ask the attention of everybody worldwide for the search of my husband's only sister, MARY ELLEN or ELAINE BRINGAS (present name) who was a victim of illegal adoption at the age of two and was separated from her only brother for almost three decades.
To the many who will get the chance to to read this, I am hoping that through God's grace and mercy, there is someone who definitely knows Ellen who will be more than willing to help us find her.
I believe that unveiling to the public every pertinent details about my husband's background will help us find Ellen easier and faster, so below is a brief story I made to the best of my knowledge of how everything started in my husband's life.
My husband, JOEY SEVILLA JOSE was born September 3, 1978 in UERM Hospital in Quezon City, Philippines and his sister MARY ELLEN/ELAINE BRINGAS (name she's presently using ) was born September 18, 1980 (not yet confirmed from NSO) in UST Hospital in Sta. Mesa. They were born out of wedlock because their mother CHRISTIANA ELIZALDE SEVILLA (maiden name) was only 22 years old in the time the first child was conceived and suffered from a forced relationship by their father, FRANCISCO C. JOSE who was already married with three kids. It was an affair she committed against her will that did not work good because she was physically abused. So when Ellen was a year old, their mother leave their father for good bringing her two kids.
My mother-in-law did not have enough for her kids since her childhood was also faced with many hardships. She and eight of her siblings were abandoned by their father when their mother died in a crash plane when she was only 4 years old. From that incident, each of them were forced to live with their relatives. As a result, she was not able to finish her study and never had a good job to raise her two kids.
After being with her children for more than three years, some of her friends, seeing how she hardly works for them, tempted her to give one of her children for adoption to lessen the burden. My mother-in-law agreed with them, unknowing that her friends did this not for her sake but for their own personal benefit because Ellen was exchanged with the sum of money she was unaware . Some of her friends were ATTY. DOY BRINGAS and BARRY BRINGAS whom according to their mother was the mastermind of the whole case. These two friends of her have a close relationship with the couple who adopted Ellen because they were cousins. They even let my mother-in-law signed the paper knowing that she was influenced by prohibited drugs. When she was already in her normal state, she felt very bad missing her daughter and realized how she made the wrong decision, so she fought to get Ellen back, but it was too late when she found out that the couple left the Philippines for good bringing Ellen with them. Based from the informationn who knew the couple told us that Ellen's foster parents were based in Abra where the woman owns a pharmacy and the man from Benguet who runs or owns a hotel in the said province.
Unaware of the fate that happened in the time of their innocence, my husband and his only sister got separated not because of their mother's strong will to do it but because of the people around them that manipulated and abused the situation even to this present time.
After a year, their mother got married and was blessed with seven children. My husband grew up with them and this was already the scene when I came to his life. We were so young and I was only 16 years old when we first met. I was on my third year highschool and so was he but he never finished it. He repeated highschool three times, not because of poor I.Q. but because of his own choice. When we got acquainted, he was already into all the vices available in this world, got along with any kind of people at any age and class, he had all the girls he wanted, and maybe I'm on the 101th line. In short my husband is an opposite of me who only knows two places, school and home. True to the saying "Opposites attract each other". Maybe this was the reason why we got too much involved, especially me. Seeing him with all these, it was a culture shock for me but I never turned my back on him. I believe that whatever strength I see in the outside is so weak and empty inside. I felt the emptiness in him, believing that I could fill that emptiness, I even pushed myself to look for his real father because since their mother left their father, there was never any chance for them to see and know each other unitl his teenage years. So, I did it, but it was too late, his father just passed away two weeks ago of liver cancer. Maybe if I came to his life much earlier, I have a chance to let them see and know each other somehow. Enough for blaming myself, as a consolationat at least I was able to put back some of the missing pieces in the puzzle. He got to meet all his cousins, his uncles, his grandfather and his three half siblings. He was accepted without doubting him because accoeding to them, my husband and his father are so much alike in many ways. I thought it was a finished business, but I was wrong, when we got married in November 1999, I saw a baby picture from his things that resembles like his face but I knew it was not him. That was the time he revealed to me about his long lost sister Mary Ellen. Perhaps if not for that incident, maybe the story of his only sister will remain concealed up to this time. From that on, I never stop praying and hoping that in God's perfect time, I will see my husband and his only sister laughing together and be part of our family.
After three years of our marriage, last December of 2003 my husband received a text message saying, " Loy, may good news ako sa iyo!Gusto ka makilala ng kapatid mo." Doubting and afraid to know the truth behind that text, two months had passed before we finally decided to make an action. My husband did not want to accompany me so I insisted to go alone, bringing all the guts I have and believing that I am the only person who could do this for my husband, I went to see that person without knowing his exact place and though I was aware that he too knew me not. The person I am referring to is Kuya YEN/ROMEO BRINGAS III who happens to be my husband's first cousin in his mother's side and on that time is presently working in GMA 7's Unang Hirit as a production manager and assistant director. Kuya Yen is the only person related to my husband who has an acces to Ellen because the couple who adopted her is kuya Yen's uncle.
When I finally found his house somewhere in Sgt Esguerra.... in Don Jose Condominium, he was not there to welcome my surprise, only his wife, JANE BRINGAS and Atty. Doy Bringas. While Kuya Yen was on his way home, I had a conversation with his wife. She told me that the text was true and relate to me that Ellen was the one who send a letter to ATTY. ROMEO BRINGAS SR. (who notarized Ellen's adoption paper as stated in her birth certificate)that she accidentally saw her adoption paper while fixing some files. It was also stated in her letter that she is so eager to know everything about her identity that she left here in the Philippines. She also included in her mail that both her parents are suffering from certain illness and she is not yet ready to open what she had discovered about her true identity.
When kuya Yen reached home, he immediately asked why I was the one who came instead of my husband. He said that he wants to see Joey and whatever it is about his sister, they will be the one to communicate with Ellen not us. Atty. Bringas showed us Ellen's e-mail and allow us to read the part of it and not the whole content. Though wondering why they have to hide some details, we read it and three of the things stated in her mail that Ellen wanted to emphasize were:
* she is only interested to find her only brother and she is not interested with any relatives she had
* no matter what the cost is, she is willing to take just to find her brother
* what kind of DNA sample she is going to send for the Bringas'
After more than two hours of conversation, we left hoping that it was the start of everything good to happen. We left that place without bringing the most importrant key because they never disclose to us any information to contact Ellen. All we have is a word they said that after a week they will let us know about Ellen's response, but a week passed, months, years and up to this time they never contact us.
Right now Ate Jane and kuya Yen Bringas left the Philippines to work in Los Angeles,USA. The last information we got from him was that Ellen's parents stopped the communication with them and he no longer knows her whereabouts.
So I am appealing to everybody who happens to read this section and knows Ellen Bringas, please let her know that her brother is still alive waiting for her here in the Philippines.
As a wife, I strongly believe that it is my mission and purpose to help my husband find her sister. It was not a work well done for me when I look for their father and I can't afford to waste any second of my time doing nothing. Life is too short to waste it. Twenty eight years of my husband's separation from her only sister is more than enough. I have seen how my husband struggles for life alone, how he cries alone, how he laughs alone and how he stands alone because he have no one to call his own family to show the world. He have us, as his family but a true family he have is his only sister he can call his own, his family, his blood.
To Ellen, I want you to know that your brother has been waiting for you eversince. What ever information that reached you about your brother's whereabouts, I'm telling you straight that they are just humors. Please understand your brother's situation, no matter how we want to search for you, we don't have enough resources to do it and this is the only way we have to find you. Whatever happened in your past is past. If ever you still have the hatred in your heart, I want you to know that you are much fortunate than your brother's fate because you were able to experience how it is to have a happy family. Everything happened with God's purpose.
To all the persons' names mentioned in this letter, we would like to apologize but we have to do this because this is the only choice left for us.
At present, based on some reliable sources that we gathered, Atty. Romeo Bringas Sr. (lawyer involved in the adoption 28 years ago) is now suffering from enzeimer's disease so he passed the case to his son, Atty. Doy Bringas whom I happen to meet four years ago. Kuya Yen Bringas resigned from GMA 7 and went to Los Angeles, California with his wife, Jane Bringas.But before they left, ate Jane told me that Ellen is in Australia with her foster parents but they never told us the place or city where exactly Ellen is. We hope that you will not be bias on treating this letter though you once had an employee involved in the said case.
If ever these informations are not all true, we still hope that somehow there are some that are true that we could hold on to.
We are now settled in Dasmarinas, Cavite. You can contact us through our mobile no. 09065592437 and e-mail address at mica_jose15@yahoo.com.. Our exact address is B5 L27 Pioneer St. Satellite II Brgy. San Jose, Dasamarinas Cavite, Philippines . In case of connection problem, you can also reached us through our Pastor Edmund de la Cruz mobile no. 09196383812, Bible Baptist Mission with address B13 L2 Earth's St. Satellite II, Dasmarinas, Cavite
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