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Family seeks reunion with man who says he was held captive by stepmom

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For 14 years, Heather Tessman had looked for her half-brother, whom she’d last seen as a young child in the 1990s, yet nothing turned up in internet and public records searches beyond the fact he’d been born. Just weeks ago, she — and the world — finally learned his story: He was the 32-year-old emaciated man rescued from a Connecticut house fire in February who told police he had been held captive in his own home for the past two decades. The W…

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Family seeks reunion with man who says he was held captive by stepmom

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