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When meeting your birth parents doesn't fill the void

I found my birth parents after thirty years and they are nothing like I imagined and now I feel more lost about my identity than I did before.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The fantasy of completion through reunion often cannot compete with the complexity of reality.

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