Pannone was not the only one trying to uncover that secret: For decades, the man’s half sister, Heather Tessman, whom their biological mother had given up for adoption before her son was born, fruitlessly dug through yearbooks of local schools she found online, …hunting for the brother she had met once, when she was 3 yrs old.
“You can’t find a person who doesn’t exist,” Tessman, 35, who lives in Vernon, CT, said in an interview.