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They say a mother's love for her child is never ending and 86-year-old Amanda Thompson, who believes she is close to the end of her life's journey, is proof of this.
Thompson desperately wants to lay her fading eyesight on one of her twin sons before she departs this world.
For the past 12 years, it has been an unending task for Thompson to locate Rupert Murray, also fondly called 'Lenny Ray' but thus far, the 86-year-old, says she has had little success. She has gone as far as placing an advertisement in the THE STAR which was published Monday.
In a very sad tone, the old woman's voice cracked as she spoke. With every word she echoed, it became more evident that there was a deep yearning to connect with those most precious. "If I could just get him to call me. I would love to see him before I die. I am not a well person you know," she said. "I just want to know he is all right."
Thompson says for the past 10 years, her health has been declining. During these 10 years, she has undergone heart and stomach surgery. She also suffered a stroke and has been battling arthritis.
Now living in the United States of America for over 40 years, Thompson says like her, several family members are longing to meet Murray.
Murray is one of Thompson's six children, four boys and two girls. With her voice trailing off, she explained that his sisters, are eager to see him. His sister Jean Garvey, who now lives in Florida desperately wants to spend some time with him and travelled to Jamaica during the Christmas holiday with the hope that her wish would have been granted. It was not to be, and so the search continues.
The last time Thompson made contact with her son was in 1995, when he was working on a boat with banana producers in Jamaica. He was travelling back and forth between Jamaica and England. She describes her son as a light-skinned man who has an Irish father but she had problems remembering his age. "Their father registered them and did not give me their birth papers and he died. That is why I remember nothing about their age," she told THE STAR.
While her relationship with her other children has been good, Thompson says she does not have the best relationship with the other son, the second of the twins.
She said the relationship became sour when she reprimanded him after she saw him "roughing up" his wife and told him, "Good men don't treat women that way." She said she later wrote him several letters to which he has never responded.
While Thompson does not have the company of her twin sons, she knows the whereabouts of one child, but nothing is known of Murray. Now close to the end of her road, she wants to peacefully go home with the knowledge that each of her children is fine and in good health. Finding and getting in contact with Rupert Murray is now one of her last wishes.
Thompson desperately wants to lay her fading eyesight on one of her twin sons before she departs this world.
For the past 12 years, it has been an unending task for Thompson to locate Rupert Murray, also fondly called 'Lenny Ray' but thus far, the 86-year-old, says she has had little success. She has gone as far as placing an advertisement in the THE STAR which was published Monday.
In a very sad tone, the old woman's voice cracked as she spoke. With every word she echoed, it became more evident that there was a deep yearning to connect with those most precious. "If I could just get him to call me. I would love to see him before I die. I am not a well person you know," she said. "I just want to know he is all right."
Thompson says for the past 10 years, her health has been declining. During these 10 years, she has undergone heart and stomach surgery. She also suffered a stroke and has been battling arthritis.
Now living in the United States of America for over 40 years, Thompson says like her, several family members are longing to meet Murray.
Murray is one of Thompson's six children, four boys and two girls. With her voice trailing off, she explained that his sisters, are eager to see him. His sister Jean Garvey, who now lives in Florida desperately wants to spend some time with him and travelled to Jamaica during the Christmas holiday with the hope that her wish would have been granted. It was not to be, and so the search continues.
The last time Thompson made contact with her son was in 1995, when he was working on a boat with banana producers in Jamaica. He was travelling back and forth between Jamaica and England. She describes her son as a light-skinned man who has an Irish father but she had problems remembering his age. "Their father registered them and did not give me their birth papers and he died. That is why I remember nothing about their age," she told THE STAR.
While her relationship with her other children has been good, Thompson says she does not have the best relationship with the other son, the second of the twins.
She said the relationship became sour when she reprimanded him after she saw him "roughing up" his wife and told him, "Good men don't treat women that way." She said she later wrote him several letters to which he has never responded.
While Thompson does not have the company of her twin sons, she knows the whereabouts of one child, but nothing is known of Murray. Now close to the end of her road, she wants to peacefully go home with the knowledge that each of her children is fine and in good health. Finding and getting in contact with Rupert Murray is now one of her last wishes.
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