Dear Carole,

My name is Julie Emrick. I was born March 10th 1980 in New York, at the Columbian Presbyterian Hospital. I believe I'm your daughter.

Okay, hopefully you're still listening. I guess I've been searching for you for a long time. I don't know, it's just something I need to do.

I've had a pretty good life so far. I love my parents, they're great. I'm a freshman in college, I'm gonna major in music. I've got real good friends.

But there's just ... there's always been something missing. And I say that it's a hole when people ask, but it's more like this ... this question that just never goes away. Like, I look in the mirror and I wonder where my brown eyes come from, or why my nose turns up a little at the end. Or why I love to play guitar, or the fact that I can eat three candy bars in one day and not get fat. Thank you for that.

I don't want anything from you ... money or anything. I just ... I would just like to meet you, even if it's just once. And just finally see myself reflected in someone else. Because I think that I need that. And just that maybe ... that you think about me too sometimes. And ... thank you for my life.