Mail - Ranges Trader mail - 08th November 2016

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Sibling healing By Jodie Symonds

Upwey's Sarah Wilson used social media website Facebook to locate her half-brother. 161512 “I went through photos of him and saw a photo that looked just like my dad and messaged him.� Miss Wilson said it’s tough not being able to speak to her brother. “I have 22 years worth of conversation I want to know about,� she said. “Mainly though, I want to know about him and what his life was like

(and) if he wanted to know I’d want to tell him about the type of person his dad is, and tell him about his relatives and their nationality and their background stories. “I just want to know what my brother is like and who he is and has become.� The man, known as Alex, hasn’t confirmed he is her brother - but she

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UPWEY’S Sarah Wilson is this week set to meet the man she believes is her long-lost half-brother. Using the power of Facebook, Miss Wilson believes she has found her halfbrother, whom she has never met, and hopes the meeting will deliver confirmation of a new sibling. When Miss Wilson was aged eight, she found out she had a half-brother from her father’s past relationship. “My Mum told me and I confronted Dad when I was very young - he told me about him and had a photo of him,� she said. “After that ... (when) I asked my Dad for more information, he said he ‘didn’t know anything’. “None of my family knows (her brother) exists.� Miss Wilson is getting married in November next year and would like her brother to help her celebrate the special day. Her upcoming wedding became the motivation for her to use social media to attempt to find and contact him, because she no longer speaks to her father. Social media worked in her favour. Miss Wilson posted on various Facebook noticeboards, which are used to buy, swap and sell items, and it resulted in a whirlwind of responses. She was given various details by people who knew him, including his age, mother’s name and location. This, she believes, has led her to find the right person. “People who saw my post contacted me and said they went to school with his mum and knew where she lives and bit by bit I got a piece of the puzzle,� Miss Wilson said. “Then someone messaged me saying they know who my brother was as they knew his name and his mum’s name and said that he grew up without his dad.


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