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A warning to our listeners, this story includes sexual violence.

My daughter, she said, mom, you know, that's all I want for my 18th birthday.

I want to find out who he is.

And so I promised her that night.

I said, we will find him.

So I didn't quite turn out the way that we thought it would,

that anybody thought that it would.

This is sincerely X and I'm Sarah Kay.

In each episode of our show, we hear a story from an anonymous guest to give light to an idea in hiding.

In this episode, our guest is a woman whose adopted daughter desperately wanted to find her

birth father. And through DNA technology, our guest was able to track him down.

But the technology pointed her to an unexpected outcome, a result that no one saw coming or would have hoped for.

Why is it important to you that you be anonymous in speaking with us today?

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