My plucky half sister sets me straight on my biological father’s identity and tells me of the brother neither of us will ever meet.

My parents prove you don’t need money to be rich. You just need to be committed to hard work … and to find someone committed to you.

I had no urgent desire to find my biological father, but I was curious about him nonetheless. What I found proved unsettling.

A search through genealogical records exposes decades of unthinkable loss for my biological mother and her family.