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It's really impossible to predict whether you reaching out will affect your birth dad and his family, so I say, go for it. He made his choice, and if it has challenging repercussions, that's not your fault. On the other hand, he may wonder about you and be interested in making amends for a crappy choice made when he was young.
Personally, if I suddenly found out I had a long lost half-sibling out there, I would be excited to get to know them, even if it meant rearranging my opinions about my dad a little bit. Haha!
I loved this quote from your story: "The best things in life lie on the other side of fear." So true.