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I Got a New Dad for My 60th Birthday

Debra Biagini was given a DNA test for her 60th birthday. There were life-changing consequences when she read the section about her father.

Debra Biagini was given a DNA test for her 60th birthday and there were life-changing consequences. It transpired her beloved dad wasn't her biological father. Outlook's Dany Mitzman went to meet her.

Hopeton Overton Brown was a teenage electronics genius with a gift for building powerful amplifiers. He went on to become a dub music maestro known as Scientist.

Maira Maidana has become a campaigner against domestic abuse in Argentina after her own traumatic experience. She told Outlook's Colm Flynn about her story.

(Image: Debra Biagini Photo credit: Maria Grazia Moncada.)

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Wed 16 Jan 201904:06GMT

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