'I was swapped at birth & found out at 43 - my biological family rejected me'
, and announced that he’d always suspected I wasn’t his – and wanted us to take a DNA test.
"As I looked in the mirror, I saw a stranger. Whose life had I been living all these years? And who had been living mine?"After telling my children, I confided in my brother Bill. Along with Scott, they supported me no end. Needing answers, I went to the public library to trawl through the archive of newspapers from 1958 and hired a lawyer so I could have patient files and medical records opened., on April 8, 1958 – to a 20-year-old unmarried woman called Polly Muñoz.
"Within six months, both my birth mum and Debbie had been traced by an adoption intermediary and my attorney, who called them and told them what had happened. "Seeing banners that read “Welcome to our long-lost daughter” hurt my heart, as did watching this tall woman fit right in with her excited new family. Debbie and I shared a hesitant embrace, but I left soon after – it was all too much.
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