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DRIVEN. PERSISTENT. DETERMINED. I was three years old when my dad left, and when he was gone, so was any link I had to his family. No one came looking

OBSERVING. ADVOCATING. EVOLVING. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be

RESILIENT. LOYAL. FIERCE. I had a rocky, on and off-again relationship with the man I knew as my Dad my entire life. But, in 2007 we were tight, we had

UNDERSTANDING. FORGIVENESS. COMPASSION. I grew up in a home in Phoenix, Arizona where I was loved and doted on by my Dad—I was his princess. My three siblings had to

RESILIENT. FAIR. PERSISTENT. I always knew I l was different, I would look at my baby pictures and see a small child with black ringlets, deep dark eyes, alone in

MOTHER. TEACHER. INSPIRER. I’ve been interested in family history and our origins for as long as I can remember. I used to spend every summer with my grandparents on both

INTROSPECTIVE. FAMILY. TENACIOUS. My name is Bruce-Paul. I’m an NPE: Non-Paternal Event because I had a misattributed parentage experience. I can now say ‘was,’ but maybe ‘always will be’ is