Daily Mail Voices on Instagram: "🚨 I was adopted - and I didn’t learn this about my birth mother until I was nearly 50 Andrew Pierce, Daily Mail consultant editor and columnist, explains how he grew up always knowing he was adopted, but it wasn’t until he was nearly 50 that he began the search to find out who his birth mother was. Pierce says he was surprised to discover that his mother had visited him as a child in the orphanage, having long believed she had abandoned him there. With help from