Gemotions

It was as if someone had rearranged the furniture in his brain. Liam had always known he was adopted, but the DNA results, showing the ethnicity and genetic markers, were still jarring. The information, a deluge of unfamiliar details, had him in an altered state.

He found himself irritable and short-tempered with his normally patient wife. He spent hours on ancestry websites, following digital breadcrumbs. The faces of his potential relatives swam before his eyes. He felt a profound sense of loss, a yearning for something he couldn't name. He felt adrift.