A wonderful thing has happened

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March 4, 2016 I've been given a book written by my brother. It's an autobiography. The backstory is that I was adopted at age 18months and thus separated from my brother and sister. My brother, sister and I reconnected when I was in junior high school but have now been estranged for many years. Out of the blue, I recently heard from his daughter, whom I've never met. I made a family ancestors calendar at Redbubble and she found it, and me, there. We emailed fast and furiously for awhile. She's interested in genealogy, so we've been exchanging information and documents. I've been holding these documents since the late 1990s, just caretaking them and wishing someone in the family was interested in them, because I'm old and would hate for them to be discarded or lost when I die. In our conversations, she mentioned this autobiography and now she's sent me a copy. I started reading it tonight. It's heartbreaking and informative. It informs me where I got a lot of my inexpicable habits. My adoptive mother personally knew my biological parents and told me some stories, but not very detailed. It's amazing how healing it is to have so many gaps filled in. Do you know anyone who's been adopted?