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| Selma Matte and Jerome Joseph Gentes during their September 2023 reunion. |
After 59 years apart, Palm Springs resident Jerome Joseph Gentes has reunited with his birth mother Selma Matte.
Gentes, 60, was given up for adoption when he was about a year old by his mother, who was 20 at the time. He reunited with her in Seattle last year.
Matte, now 80, was born and raised at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana with four sisters and three brothers. She was 19, living in San Francisco and working at Bank of America, when she got pregnant. Jerome’s birth father promised to help after the baby was born, but instead returned to his Indian reservation in North Dakota before the birth, because his grandmother was ill. He never came back.
(Gentes’ birth father died two months before the reunion with Matte.)
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