Twice a Daughter

Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption paperswhich becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues. To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a pact: Julie will approach their adoptive parents for the adoption paperwork and investigate search options, and the sisters will split the costs involved in locating their birth relatives. But their adoptive parents arent happy that their daughters want to locate their birth parentsand that is only the first of many obstacles Julie will come up against as she digs into her background. Julies search for her birth relatives spans eight years and involves a search agency, a PI, a confidential intermediary, a judge, an adoption agency, a social worker, and a genealogist. By journeys end, what began as a simple desire for a family medical history has evolved into a complicated questone that unearths secrets, lies, and family members that are literally right next door.