David Batty

And I'm sure it must have been absolutely terrible for her to read that.

On one level, I do feel guilt for that.

But on another level, I just feel that

that I just didn't really know what to do and I didn't have any support.

I didn't have any guidance.

And I just didn't really, at that point, I hadn't processed my feelings enough.

I mean, it was very, very different.

I found him through, I think, just a Google search on his name.

He'd written about being a journalist, you know, and I didn't know that before.

And then there was this picture of this other boy who was a young teenager at the time who was my half-brother, who I had no idea...

existed.

And given that my half-brother was in his early teens, I decided that I wouldn't initiate tracing at that point.

So I waited and I waited until he was 18.

And when he was 18, I found his Facebook profile and sort of went through that and found this post that he'd written years earlier, like years and years earlier.

And it said, to my brother, who I will never meet.

And that was, to me, the thing that made me decide, right, I'm going to do this.

So I'd gathered all this information about him.

and found a private investigator who handles adoption tracing in LA.

And they found him within 24 hours.

By bizarre coincidence, this was on the day of Trump's first inauguration.