Excellent story. My family also has an adoption story - my mother was adopted out as a baby in the 1930s. We have recently learned that she was fostered for the first 2 years of her life before finally being adopted. Fortunately my mothers story was not as bad as Pauls story. She and I both did a DNA test, and luckily we found some cousin matches already in the databases so we were able to get some answers fairly fast. I give this story 4.5 stars. It was well written, and kept my attention. It is sad that Paul has not yet been able to learn what happened to his twin sister. It is good to know that the real Paul Fronczak has been found - but he chooses not to be publicly identified - which is of course his right. ( )

Fast read for me. The story was well written and very interesting. The genealogy research they did was fascinating! The results for him were not entirely what he'd been hoping for and were heart wrenching and twisting in the turns this story went. ( )

When he was a boy, Paul Fronczak discovered hidden newspaper clippings that told the story of his kidnapping from a Chicago hospital shortly after his birth and his reunion with his family a couple of years later. His doubts about his true identity never really left his mind from that point on. After his daughter's birth, her doctors naturally wanted information about his medical history, and he realized that he wasn't sure that he really was Paul Fronczak. A DNA test eventually proved his suspicion was accurate and he set out on a quest to discover his both his true identity and what had happened to the real Paul Fronczak. He had support from genetic genealogists in his search, but unfortunately not the support of his family. I find it hard to blame him for pursuing the truth. I think I would have felt the same way if I were in his shoes. It seemed that each discovery only served to raise more questions and led him to painful secrets. I listened to most of this book in a single day. It was just that hard to put down. ( )

I realize that I will never hava any idea what this man went through when finding out that the parents who raised him were not part of his natural-born family. However, I also felt like he has now rewritten his entire history through the lens of this experience. All families have disagreements, all family members have moments when they think, "Oh my god, I cannot be related to these people." His total disregard for what his adoptive parents, brother, wife and child were going through while he was on this journey, as well as his whiny, petulant attitude sorely taxed my resolve to finish this book and find out what really happened.

I found the entire middle of this book completely mind-numbing. Perhaps if you are someone who is going through a similar search on a geneology site, this information might be useful. But, I am not one of those people. The story of the author's kidnapping was interesting, and once he finally gets some answers about his past the story moves swiftly.

I am glad that I finished the book, and I hope that the author has finally agreed to counseling. I think it would help him alot. ( )

Amazing true story. ( )