Details: In 1944, Joe Soll was in kindergarten when other children teased him about being adopted. Not knowing what the word meant, he went home to his mother and asked her about it. She told him that he had been adopted and that his birth parents had died in a car accident. Joe had been adopted as an infant in 1939 by Charles and Florence Soll. Charles was a successful attorney who passed away in 1960. Twenty years later, Joe learned that his birth parents had not died in a car accident, but that Charles had hidden information about Joe's real family. Eventually, Joe was able to access records that showed he was born Robert Wilson on November 3, 1939, and that his birth mother's name was Ruth Haverman. He learned that Ruth had apparently lived at 677 Lexington Avenue in New York City; how
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