Adopted Woman Traced Her Birth Family, Then She Made A Life-Altering Discovery

Who doesn’t love daydreaming about a happily ever after? And no one knows the longing for a fairytale better than Sarah Culberson. Adopted as a baby, she grew up with more unanswered questions than most people. Were her biological parents successful, rich, happy? Well, her search lead her down a path that astonished her and the rest of the world.

Lifelong questions

Sarah Culberson had been adopted into a new family when she was just one year old. Obviously, she had no memory of her birth parents or what they were like. And though her adoptive mom and dad were kind and loving, she always wondered about the people who brought her into the world.

Community ties

There was another aspect to her search, too. Culberson’s adoptive parents were white, but she herself was biracial. She was actually one of the very few non-white people in the Morgantown community where she was raised. And that led her to wonder all the more about where she came from and what her background was.

Closed adoption

As she grew older, Culberson felt compelled to find out. She had a lot of questions and the only way she could answer them was by tracing her roots. Her adoptive parents couldn’t tell her much, as the adoption had been a closed one, but they were very supportive. So they also didn’t know the stunning secret about Culberson’s heritage.

Culberson’s early life

There was nothing in Culberson’s past to indicate what kind of revelations awaited her. But she often struggled growing up as a biracial kid in a white family. And in her 2009 memoir, published after her fascinating story caught the attention of the world, she wrote extensively about her childhood.