“There is a lifelong impact of being
adopted and we have to fit in
all these different families. I found
my birth mother and then only
four years ago I found my birth
father and I was in my fifties; he
lived an hour away from where I
was living. I’m from England, he’s
from Rome; he lived in L.A., I lived
in L.A. so, we had like followed
each other. He was living an hour
away and when I was playing a
venue that I used to perform at;
he was five minutes up the street!
I never knew; how would that
seem possible? He’s from Rome,
I’m from England; how can we
both end up living in New Jersey?
When I met him, we had such an
instant connection; I absolutely
adored him. We really connected
and there’s a whole bunch of other
kids that he had and I found him
via ancestry DNA; I matched with
a sister who was also adopted
American and living in L.A. She
knew people that I knew in L.A. in
the adoption world because she
had gone to groups but they never
put us together because she’s
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