The following teaser is from an excellent story posted at the wbaltv.com website of a woman and her son’s search for her adopted brother. As with many searches, this one doesn’t exactly have a happy ending… But the search was successful.
BALTIMORE — An Alabama woman who has been searching for a year for a half brother she recently learned was adopted from a home in Baltimore finally has some answers, even though they’re not exactly the ones for which she was looking.
Jan Irvine and her son, Joseph, traveled to Charm City looking for answers about her half brother, David, who she only recently learned about. After a year of searching and enlisting the I-Team to help, they finally know who he is.
The story all began with a photo, I-Team reporter Lisa Robinson said.
“She looked so sad,” Jan Irvine said after looking at a photo of her own mother, Jane Nicholson. Over the years, she said she’s asked relatives why her mother, who is dead, looked so sad in that photo. Recently, an aunt spilled the tightly held family secret.
“I said, ‘Aunt Carolyn, do you have any idea why my mother looks so sad in this picture?’ Aunt Carolyn told me, she said, ‘Well, I’m 90 years old. Who knows how long I’m going to live, so you deserve to know you have a brother living,'” Jan Irvine said.
