Adoption: The Chapter You Thought Was Finished
About this episode
Rob Lynch shares his journey of discovering his adoption and the impact it had on his life.
Maybe you've always known something was a little off, like there was a frequency everyone else could tune into that you just couldn't quite find. Rob Lynch felt that from the time he was a kid, a quiet, persistent sense of difference that he couldn't name. When he was eleven, a Brady Bunch episode and a careless comment to his mother unlocked a secret his family had kept since the beginning. He was adopted. For decades, Rob absorbed that truth and moved on. He built a life, raised kids, wrote a novel, loved people, lost people. The adoption became background noise, something other people found more interesting than he did. But then lockdown arrived, his daughter did a DNA test, and a stranger reached out through a genealogy website. The message was simple: I think I'm your first cousin. And the thread, once pulled, didn't stop. What followed was three Sundays of pacing, a phone call he almost didn't make, and a voice on the other end that said: I looked for you for so long. Can you ever forgive me? Have you had a good life? This episode sits with what it means to find a missing piece, and whether the shape of your life changes once you finally hold it. What You'll Hear: The night…
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