Thank you for sharing this story. It would make an excellent movie. The step-Mom was wise to wait until her adopted daughter was about 13 before she was told of the circumstances of her birth (abandoned in the cold night, wrapped in a yellow blanket, and found by a janitor).
Our adopted daughter was abused by her druggie mother and her new squeeze and then put into the system when she was 2. We had to tell her from the get go that she was adopted because she wasn’t placed with us until she was almost 4. She needed to have her story. She had bonded with her foster parents so that was a second loss. We had some photos but no baby pix. We found her birth family and when she was 14 we drove to where they lived to meet them. She still has a relationship with them. Its been an interesting journey. We’re very blessed to have her in our lives.