Sarah Spain

She said, I don't know.

It's maybe religious or something.

Who knows?

And so first he starts looking in Ohio and ultimately is able to get the call back that they found his papers.

But the woman on the other end says, I can't tell you them.

I can't send them to you.

And he says, what do you mean?

And he realizes that she's holding papers for a different state.

You remember I said his mom said Pittsburgh.

That's where we went to pick up Dillon when we adopted him.

So even though he grew up in Ohio, he was actually born and adopted in Pennsylvania.

And the laws were different in that state.

Well, first he is sort of surprised at how thin the envelope is and figures it must be something telling him they couldn't find it.

And imagine getting the mail and it's like, you know, 10% off at Bed Bath & Beyond and then your birth certificate.

Like that's how unassuming this letter was.

So they all start Googling.

He plugs in Carol D. Briggs in a couple places and ends up finding her, sends her a message on Facebook, and essentially just says, did you have a baby that you gave up for adoption in Pennsylvania in 1971?

And at first she accepts the message but doesn't answer.

And then he sends a follow-up question mark.

So she had been a 16-year-old honor student, had had an oopsie, and her family sent her off to an orphanage slash home for mothers and girls in Pennsylvania to have the baby in private, be pregnant in private, and then go back to school with no one the wiser.