world smaller and the same tools you used to reconnect, apparently they were helping adopted children who are now adults reconnect with their biological roots. cnn s julie peterson has one woman s story. my dad, my mom, my sister. reporter: it happened 19 years ago in a restaurant parking lot. you can see the cracker barrel in the back. that s when as an infant she was presented to her adopted parents. that s when i started my real life, a family that loved me, wanted me, and a family that actually fought to fight me, get me. reporter: now a freshman in college maura knows she s always been adopted but still she wanted to find her biological roots. at first her adopted mother was skeptical, but after going to an adoption support group with maura, marsha stevenson came around. her birth mother gave her life and i feel like i gave her