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Darryl McDaniels was 35 years old when he learned he was adopted. The DMC of Run-DMC was working on his autobiography and the hip-hop star had asked his mother for some information. That's when she told him.

McDaniels has since found his birth mother, taped a documentary about his search and, with the casting director of "The Sopranos," Sheila Jaffe, who also was adopted, created a camp for children in foster care.

"We are the fortunate children ... we got taken home," they write on a Web site devoted to the camp. "There are many children who did not. There are many children growing up without parents, in the foster care 'system' or with parents who aren't really equipped. These children do not have the opportunities we had, or parental hands to guide and support them as we did."