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142 - "American Baby", Gabrielle Glaser
Season 8 Episode 142
David, and his birth mother Margaret's story of adoption relinquishment, lives lived apart but close to one another, and their brief emotional reunio…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Shadows of the Night
Season 6 Episode 115
DL called me from Manhattan, New York. He talks about his youth in a home with a mother addicted to prescription medications who probably wasn’t fit …
5 months ago
147 - Please Don't Carry That Weight Anymore
Season 8 Episode 147
Lisa Marie chatted with me via Skype from Lake Garda in the North of Italy.
In her journey you'll hear the impact of a transracial adoptee who grew up…
5 months, 1 week ago
135 Something About This Tells Me We're Family
Season 7 Episode 135
Isaac, from Hawaii, talks about himself as a boy who was loved, but struggled to connect with his adoptive parents in certain ways. Having left the i…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
129 - Finding Him Has Made The Heartache Non-Existent
Season 7 Episode 129
Tracey called me from Nashville, TN. She was raised in a family with a genetic trait that deeply impacted her middle sister, driving her appreciation…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
175 - The Thing I Needed To Forgive Myself
Season 10 Episode 175
Kristen, from Minnesota, was a multi-sport athlete in high school, even competing while pregnant with her daughter. She tells the story of giving bir…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
106 – Beautiful Truth
Season 5 Episode 106
For Shelby, growing up as a Korean adoptee left her feeling “othered” as she didn’t quite fit into her community. The Korean school her parents tried…
6 months, 1 week ago
261 - Born Without A Race
Season 16 Episode 261
Sean from, Fishers, Indiana, grew up the only person of color in his entire rural town. Yet his ethnicity was hidden from him by his adoptive mothe…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
260 - Il Mio Posto a Tavola (My Place at the Table)
Season 16 Episode 260
Santo, from Redding, PA, grew up knowing he was adopted, and that his family could have also adopted his siblings from Italy.
As an adult, when a fri…
7 months ago
259 - The Innocent People Project
Season 16 Episode 259
Jeff, from southern California, grew up with the knowledge of and separation anxiety about his adoption. In reunion, he found his birth mother who …
7 months, 1 week ago