Tuam, Ireland
CNN
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When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother, Maggie O’Connor, would be over the moon. She had become a great-grandmother.
Instead, McKay found her sobbing unconsolably outside her home, crying: “It’s the baby, the baby.”
McKay reassured her 70-year-old mother that her great-grandson was healthy. But O’Connor wasn’t talking about him.
“Not your baby, my baby,” O’Connor said, revealing a secret she had buried for decades. Her first child, Mary Margaret, died in June 1943, at just 6 months old.
It was the first and only time that O’Connor spoke about Mary…
