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Kris Gourlay

Edinburgh man abandoned in Morocco as a baby on quest to find his birth family

An Edinburgh man, who was abandoned and handed in to a hospital in Morocco just three months after he was born, is hoping to take a trip back to his country of birth in search of answers.

Ryan Anderson, from Leith, was born with no name until his adoptive parents chose Rachid, to which he eventually changed to Ryan at the age of 19. The people who he now calls his parents, brought him up in the UK, but Ryan was unaware of the secrets of his past until he turned 18.

When he turned 18, Ryan, or 'Peshy' as his mates know him, was informed that not only was he adopted and the people he had been living with his whole life weren't his real parents, but also that information regarding his precise date of birth, his real name and the whereabouts of his birth mother and father were also a mystery.

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