A Woman Knocked On My Door And Said She Was My Daughter. I Never Had A Baby. | Learn English Story

Glenna Vrabel is sixty-six. She lives in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. On a Saturday morning in September, she was vacuuming in her robe when somebody knocked on the door. The woman on the porch was about forty-six. She asked if Glenna's name used to be Glenna Marie Hudak. Then she said: I think you're my mother. She had a folder. Inside it was a copy of an original birth record. Baby girl, born March 9th, 1979, Latrobe Hospital. On the line for the mother it said Glenna Marie Hudak, age nineteen, with Glenna's exact date of birth. Glenna has never been pregnant. Not once in sixty-six years. The paper was real. The name was real. The birthday was real. And Glenna has a younger sister who went away to stay with an aunt for most of 1979, and came home in June, thin and quiet. This story is told slowly and clearly for English learners at Level 1 (A1). Every sentence is short. The text appears on screen as you listen, so you can read and hear at the same time. #emotionalstory #familysecret #truestory #learnenglish #englishstory #shortstories CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 0:30 The Knock 1:18 The Paper 2:13 I Never Had A Baby 3:20 What I Said At The Door 5:33 Yvonne 6:38 What It Means 7:29 Sunday At Four 8:34 The Drive 9:30 Stan Let Me In 10:19 The Kitchen 11:15 1979 12:45 What I Asked Her 13:40 What I Did Not Do 14:44 What I Told Rhea 16:36 Eleven Weeks 18:02 The Sunday She Called 19:23 Three Things 21:36 The Photograph HOW TO USE THIS VIDEO 1. First time: just listen. Do not stop the video. 2. Second time: read the text on screen as you listen. 3. Third time: say the sentences out loud with the narrator. American English. Level 1 (A1). No subtitles needed — the text is on screen.