truth stranger than fiction

my name is Ian.o and I know what some of you must be going through is not easy and very hard to take in right now. I found out about myself being adopted much later in life than most people do. I was born here in los angeles and was taken to England when I was 8 years old. I was one of 3 kids , but I was the only one who was adopted. The fact of myself being adopted was always kept from me. Although I always half suspected that I somehow did not fit it with the rest of the family in my personality and out look on life. It was not until I was almost 30 years old that I decided to leave home for a life of my own as my adoptive mother was very much a control freak. She would even open and read my personal mail !!!!!, they thought that I should remain at home my whole life to look after them until they were dead. So the day that I decided to leave home I had made all my arrangements, and as I was walking out of the front door with the last of my belongings. My mother turned round to me and said " If you are leaving you might as well know that you were " ADOPTED ". And that is how I found out. They refused to let me have my adoption papers or birth cert and it took me almost thirteen years to track them down from England. I later discovered that my bio mother had passed away just three years before me finding my bio brother in la harbra in 2006. I look at it this way , my Bio mother must of had a very hard choice to make when having to give me up. We all have to make hard choices in life , and we have to live with the results of those choices. I don't blame her or resent her in anyway as I really don't know why she had to make that decission . I would of really liked to of had the chance to meet her, and know her, but now I just pray that she is resting in peace knowing that I have found my bio father here in California in 2008. I returned to the USA in the dec of 2008 to met my bio dad for the first time, and he refused to let me return to the UK saying that I was home now and my place was with him. So I have been living with my new Dad & Mum ever since. There is so much more to my story but I do not have time to tell you now but I will in the near future. I hope you all find this helpful Ian.o