Lifelong family search: Until he was 70, Moore thought he was an only child

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Coweta's Sonny Moore, left, with his two half-siblings, Michael Moore and Judy Moore Draper. This photo was taken last fall just hours after the three learned of each other's existence.

By ALEX MCRAE
alex@newnan.com
A lifelong search for a father he never met led Coweta’s Sonny Moore to a whole family he never knew existed.
"Until I was 70 years old, I thought I was an only child," he says. "Then all of a sudden I found out I was covered up with kinfolks. You just never know what you might find if you keep looking hard enough." 
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