Had been adopted
Man met half-siblings for the first time after 75 years
After being adopted, a 75-year-old American man met his five half-siblings for the first time. He had previously been given access to his birth certificate due to a new law.
It was his "very personal Christmas miracle!" Thanks to a new law in the US state of New York, Dixon Handshaw was able to see his birth certificate for the first time 75 years after his adoption. This enabled him to find out the name of his birth parents. But that's not all: he also found out that he has a half-sister and four half-brothers. Shortly before Christmas, they all met in person for the first time.
Handshaw's father Robert "Bud" Romig was a physics professor and had fathered a child with the secretary of his university, who was given up for adoption after birth. Romig later married another woman, with whom he had five biological children and adopted three more.
Handshaw hesitated for a long time to contact his half-siblings: "I didn't want to interfere in their lives." Two weeks before Christmas, he decided to do so after all.
On December 20, Handshaw finally flew to Rochester, where he fell into the arms of all his siblings at a family reunion: "I've never experienced such a wave of love as from my biological family!"
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