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Of two Kenyan men and the Italian missionary Father Mario Lacchin they claim is their father

Steven Lacchin, 39, left, meets for the first time with Gerald Erebon, 30, right, who DNA tests indicate is his half-brother, in Nairobi, Kenya. An Associated Press story on the front page of a newspaper in Nairobi brought together the two Kenyan men - one who knew that his father was an Italian missionary priest, and the other who wanted proof that he was the son of the same priest. [AP/Ben Curtis]

A young man’s quest to find his father leads him to his half-brother who has been equally battling life-long unanswered questions about his paternity. One man, a Catholic priest in Nairobi, is at the centre of this gripping story about search for identity.

Steven Lacchin grew up a fatherless boy, but he knew some very basic facts about the man who was his father. He knew Lacchin, the name on his Kenyan birth certificate, was his dad’s name. He knew that Mario Lacchin abandoned him and his mother.

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