Goodreads asked David Houser:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

David Houser There has not been a time in my life that I wasn't knowledgeable that I was adopted. As many children who have the same experience, I grew up watching the door, wondering if every stranger was my birth sibling or my birth parent. I'm certain this early exercise led me to writing fiction. Last year, with the pressing from my mother, I began my search for answers. Amazingly, it only took four weeks before I walked up to the door of my birth brother who turned out to live only 45 miles north of my wife and me. Though my birth parents are both deceased, I have gained five brothers, a sister who I have yet to meet, two nieces, two nephews, and their children, as well. Hearing so many stories of a life I so easily could have called my own naturally draws the creative side of my thinking into play. I just need to see this non fiction through, before I start to tweak it!

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