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Originally posted by SSS1365
I'm "half" adopted. Meaning I don't know my biological father, but I always lived with my mom. She got re-married when I was 3, and when I was 6 my dad (meaning the man who raised me) adopted me. I found out about a year and a half ago that I have 6 half-sisters out there 
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SSS, your story sounds EXACTLY like mine. I too am half adopted. My mom and father split before I was one and my mom remarried when I was three. When I was five my parents told me that my new dad wanted to adopt me. That meant no more contact with my real father (that's the law and he wasn't really ready to get out of college party mode yet anyway), but that was ok with me because I was really too young to understand and I liked my new dad. That year my parents had twins so I have twin half-brothers. I would think about my father occasionally growing up and sometimes I struggled with the issue. I decided I want to meet him when I was a senior in high school. It probably would have been a while before that happened if it weren't for him becoming terminally ill with brain cancer. So I met him once before he died and then met his son (my other half brother) at the funeral. My "new dad" and my twin half-brothers are like real family to me and always have been. I am sure one day I will see the other half-brother again but right now he's still too young to understand - I think he's about 11 now.
All of this probably sounds kind of crazy to those of you who haven't experienced anything like it, but it's really not a big deal to me. I have always said I'd rather have my situation than have divorced parents who don't get along and me have to split my time between the two.