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Lisa Harrington always knew she was adopted. And she always knew that she “looked a bit Asian”. But it was only at the beginning of last year – now in her 60s – that a spur of the moment decision to take a DNA test, revealed a family who had been searching for her for two decades. It also proved what she’d always really known – she was half Goan. “Both my parents were English white and they let me know I was adopted from the age of about two,” she explains. “I thought they said I was dotted, so I looked all over my body for spots.” Lisa was adopted from birth, from the Plymouth area, and says …

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