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I always felt 'different'
MEN on Sunday
|September 24, 2023
TV documentary follows 31-year-old's odyssey to find his biological father after shock DNA test
LUKE Davies was at work when an email popped up on his phone. The results from his DNA test were back.
He was going to read them when he got home but he couldn't wait any longer. Standing in a toilet cubicle, he tapped the notification and held his breath.
A video of a globe appeared on the screen. It spun to Portugal and some text appeared. 'Iberian, it read.
"Iberian?" Luke remembers thinking to himself. "I don't even know what that is." The globe kept spinning and another region lit up. This time, it was West Africa. Luke felt paralysed.
He knew he had someuncovered thing huge.
Growing up in a working white, class family Rochdale, 31-year-old always felt like an outsider in the Now, he finally knew why.
This story is from the September 24, 2023 edition of MEN on Sunday.
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