Dotty Nolan is the daughter of director Christopher Nolan. The day before she and her father would be going to France to start the production of the film 'Dunkirk', she accidentally texts the wrong person after saving her friend's number in wrong. I...
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Sitting at home the next evening, Dotty curled up in the corner of her 'den' which was not her bedroom, snuggled up under a blanket with a hot chocolate as she planned to read a book.
Her parents were out for the evening with some friends leaving her home alone with nothing to do but wallow in her own thoughts about how she would approach the whole situation of meeting her birth parents and not liking that idea she plucked a book from her bookshelf and escaped to the world built on the pages.
She hadn't spoken to Fionn in a few days and to be perfectly honest it was rather refreshing. Don't get her wrong, she could quite happily talk to and listen to Fionn for hours and days on end but they were always together that the idea of being apart had gotten to the point where she was rather unnerved by it at first but now that it had been a few days, it made her roll her eyes at herself from a few days ago. She didn't need Fionn 24/7, she knew that, but being stupid at first she didn't believe that.
It wasn't long until she couldn't concentrate on her book any longer and instead, she brought out her laptop and went to her emails. She had been provided by her parents her birth father's email, his name is Alec Mulligan and his wife, Dotty's birth mother, is called Aoife. She was told that if she wanted to meet them she should be the one to arrange it with them and not a third party, like Chris or Emma.
Inhaling a deep breath, her hands shook as she started to type out the email.
Dear Alec and Aoife Mulligan,
You do not know me, well, I assume you have heard of me due to you contacting the police in search of me. My name is Dorothy Nolan and I am your daughter. My parents, Christopher and Emma, informed me that you wanted to find and meet me.
I will admit, at first I was on the fence, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I was scared to even think about the prospect of meeting my birth parents, however, upon talking to my parents and some of my closest friends I concluded that I would.
If you would still like to meet me, I would be more than happy to do so. I understand if you have changed your mind, it's weird to process myself, let alone how you both must be feeling.
If you do not, I would like you to know that I have had a happy life, Christopher and Emma have been amazing parents to me and have given me the best life I could ever ask for. I have known that I was adopted since I was very young, they didn't want to keep it form me and I am glad that they didn't. Over the years I have contemplated about searching for my birth parents but I always chickened out of doing so for many different reasons.
I do have questions for you but I understand if you do not wish to answer them and if you do not want to meet me. Yet, if you do, as I said, I would love to meet you.
