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I realize that this is an old thread, but I felt compelled to jump in with the Irish love! I discovered my real roots last year when I met my birth mother for the first time.
The interesting thing is, my amom is full-blooded Irish, and I've always felt a greater affinity for her side of the family than for my adad's non-Irish family. I've always had a deep love for the Emerald Isle; something about it felt like "home" to me. When asked the Big, Important Question of my heritage when I was little, I always replied that I was one part Irish, one part English, and the rest of the way American (my bmom's place of birth was listed as a location in England on the copy of my original birth certificate; turns out her father was in the military, stationed in England at the time of her birth, so she wasn't really English, which is fine by me! That leaves room for more Irishness in my blood!).
It's so empowering discovering your true bioligical roots.
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