Stranger than Fiction
A bricklayer in the UK found out late in life that his family history was not all that he had assumed. After his mother’s death, his father hinted at an adoption. It turns out that his birth mother had given him away at a train station via a newspaper ad in 1945. At the age of 60 he decided to hunt down his real family. His mother and father had both passed away, but he was able to be re-united with the younger brother he had never met – Ian McEwan.
January 17, 2007 2:06 pm 
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By Shaft, January 17, 2007 @ 4:42 pm
If I claim that I’m Ian McEwan’s long lost adopted brother, can I get in on some of those publishing royalties?
By DJ Cayenne, January 17, 2007 @ 9:23 pm
No, but you will drink free in British pubs for the rest of your life. You may come out ahead.
By Shaft, January 18, 2007 @ 11:51 am
Drinking free in British pubs, huh? That’s got about as much value to me as free elephant rides every time I’m in Punjab and free penguin petting every time I’m at the south pole.