A simple newspaper advertisement has changed one woman’s life forever, reuniting her with the father she never knew and introducing her to an entire family she never realized existed.

Louise Walters, from Nottinghamshire, grew up believing that the man raising her was her father. But when she was eight years old, she learned the truth — the man she thought was her dad wasn’t related to her at all.

Her mother, Angie Ishmael, had been in a short relationship in 1969 while living in Brighton. When she became pregnant, her partner, known to her as Gary, disappeared from her life. For years, Angie told her daughter that her real father was either in prison or dead, according to the SWNS.

Still, Walters couldn’t let go of the need to know where she came from. In 2010, she placed a small adver

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