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This article was originally published as "I Found My Dad...Too Late" in the December 2007 issue of Cosmopolitan.After searching for her birth father, Mariah Mills was shocked to learn his famous identity -- and devastated to find out he'd died.I've always known I was adopted. My mom and dad explained that although my birth parents really loved me, they hadn't been ready to take care of a baby. I had a happy, "normal" childhood with a loving family, but a huge question mark remained.In Saint Paul, Minnesota, where I grew up, adoptees don't have access to their birth parents' names until they turn 19...In 2001, during my junior year of high school, the principal announced over the loudspeaker that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center. Everyone was upset, but I felt a strange, overwhelming sadness deep in my gut that I couldn't explain.When I got home, I blurted out to my mom that I thought one of my birth parents had died. I'd never had such a strong intuition before. My mom reassured me that the odds of this being true were tiny. But that scary intuition still haunted me...
