Siblings Abandoned as Babies Over a Half-Century Ago Reunite: ‘A Special Relationship’

Siblings Abandoned as Babies Over a Half-Century Ago Reunite: ‘A Special Relationship’
Courtesy of Helen Ward
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A brother and sister abandoned as babies, who found one another after a five-decade search, have discovered that a third baby left in a phone box also is their full sibling. The trio have since come together and forged an inseparable bond.

David McBride, 59, was abandoned in a shopping bag on the front seat of a car outside Belfast, Ireland, in January 1962. Helen Ward, 53, was left inside a phone box on the other side of the Irish border, in Dundalk, six years later. Despite actively searching for their birth parents, they didn’t realize their stories were connected until David took a DNA test in May 2019.