Welcome home
Mariela Andersen, 31
Placing a plastic strip in my hand, my mum Lisa, then 38, smiled.
‘Your hospital bracelet from when you were born,’ she said.
‘Mariela Sanchez,’ I read aloud.
It was 1997, I was 7, and Mum and my dad Pete, 42, were telling me how they’d adopted me at 5 weeks old from an orphanage in Colombia – it had never been a secret.
But over the years, I’d asked more questions. And
