Experience: I found my long-lost twin aged 49

The joy, disbelief and shock of discovering I had a brother the same age as me came with a million questions. How were we separated and why? In 1975, my parents saw an advert in their local Australian newspaper. With the Vietnam war coming to an end, thousands of orphaned children were being evacuated. As part of the American-led Operation Babylift, the Australian government was looking for families who would adopt them. My parents decided to do it. I arrived in Adelaide in April in a shoebox...

By Chantal Doecke