Not sure if this is the right place to post so feel free to move mods.


A month or so ago I decided to write a short note to my birth father. I've never met him but I've always known who he was.

This morning a letter came addressed to me and I was shocked to find a reply from him. What threw me when I realised who it was from was that rather than being hand written, the letter was typed and printed.

He acknowledged that I was his Daugther and that he would "love to get to know me".

I'm quite sick today so my emotions and feeling are all over the place. I can't help but feel annoyed that he couldn't give me the decency of a hand written reply considering I had opened the lines of communication with a hand written letter myself.

Admittedly, I am pleased that he has replied at all and is willing to get to know me on the terms that I had "set down" - written communication only at this point.

So where to next?

I guess I have loads of questions...my biggest being, what happened? Why did you leave?

I'm not sure if I should just come out with it like that or work slowly into it.

What do you think?