I'm sure this topic has been discussed here before, but I don't recall seeing it. When an exposto was born and baptized and given to a family to be raised, did he take on the adopting family's names, or did he use his real parents names? Did the new parents always know who the real parents were? These were small villages and everybody basically knew everybody's business. It didn't take long for news to travel from one end of Mayberry to the other, right? Herb
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