By Lynn Arditi
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The Providence Journal / Glenn Osmundson
Connie Sottile, 42, and her biological father
Jack Silvia met for the first time in September.
They now speak on the phone almost every day.
PROVIDENCE, RI --The state Department of Health's office of vital records has responded to requests for original birth records from nearly 700 adults who were born in Rhode Island and placed for adoption.
The records, sealed in 1944, were opened in July after state lawmakers answered more than a decade of pleas by adult adoptees in search of their genetic and famillial origins.