Dear @Eve7 @Former-Member @outlander @Shaz51 ,many years ago in my vey easily thirthies I made contact with my birth family.   Whilst this has bought many happinesses and much fun it has bought sadness and isolation too this has most evidently been made obvious over my step fathers death in Melbourne,  I am not thought of as part of the groups of siblings in the same way. Even though they always knew of my existence.  I have three full sisters and some four half sisters and four half brothers.  One brother and one sister are dead now. But that is still a lot of us.  I have been most close to my full sisters.  I I do get left out of stuff and forgotten. I understand how this can happen. But after nearly forty years I have come to see it.   I belong to another family. My beautiful adoptive family. There has never been any question there of my place or belonging. My brother and I were equal   I was happy then. 

I have not been truly happy sine going on this quest. And now I must say goodbye to them all. 

Peri