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Since her adolescence, Marianne moved forward in life with questions about her origin.
Taxi drivers asked her if she was Kabyle.
Restaurant owners spoke Greek to him in summer.
At school, we could imagine him of Portuguese origin, Sephardic perhaps.
Born in secret and adopted at birth, the young quadra also had to manage the projections of those around her.
“
When we don't know our origins
, we tend to fantasize, or to rely on the fantasies of others.
"
The others, in this case very close friends, take the plunge on his 35th birthday and offer him a FamilyTreeDNA test as a birthday present.
"
I knew it was far from being light for me,
" says the young woman.
They are at her side when she rubs the inside of her cheek with a cotton swab, slips it into the envelope, "
a happy moment in a Parisian bar
".
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