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If your daughter is only 18 she may or may not be ready to meet you, if she knows she is adopted. Have you searched the various free registries on the net (including this one)? Have you posted on the same registries?
Only you can decide but please try very hard (both of you) to think back to when you were this age and how you would have reacted. Not saying that your daughter will be an exact replica of how you were, but I am a very strong believer that personality and how we deal with things is genetic. If both of you would have been ready to either a) learn you were adopted from your birth family, OR b) ready to meet your birth parents you have known about all your life then - go for it...
Some will argue this point but at 18, I think you may want to talk to her parents and see what they think.
Whatever you do you must be prepared for the worst possible scenario because it does happen, and I imagine the pain of rejection of birth parents would be similar to the pain felt by adoptees when being rejected by birth parents.
I would like to suggest that you prepare a comprehensive medical health history so that whatever happens she has that to help protect her in the future.
Good luck,
Dickons
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