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Lea: Late Reunion Brings Love and Connection
Episode 11
Lea is an adoptee born at the end of the Baby Scoop era, 1970. She was born and raised in the city where she currently lives with her family. She kn…
2 years ago
Patti: The Girl With Three Birthdays
Episode 10
Patti Eddington is a newspaper and magazine journalist whose favorite job ever was interviewing famous authors who came through town on book tours. S…
2 years, 1 month ago
Kathleen: A Reunion Full of Surprises
Episode 9
Kathleen was born in 1968 in Northern California. Her birth mother relinquished her for adoption immediately upon birth, and Kathleen was then adopte…
2 years, 1 month ago
Gaynor: An Adoptee Finds Resilience
Episode 8
Gaynor was born in a mother-and-baby home and spent the first six weeks of life there before being adopted in the same town of birth. Despite a chall…
2 years, 1 month ago
Aje: Finding Her Voice and Facing Hard Truths
Episode 7
Adopted at birth, Ajé loved sharing her adoption story throughout her childhood. She always had a feeling that she had been wanted by her birth paren…
2 years, 1 month ago
Angela: An Early Reunion Led to Belonging
Episode 6
Angela was born in Nebraska in 1979 and adopted at 3 days old. She grew up in a family that came with many complexities and issues, and she struggled…
2 years, 1 month ago
Magali: A Stranger in Two Countries
Episode 5
Magali was born in Sri Lanka in 1992 and adopted by French parents when she was 2 months old. She grew up in a small town in France, a mostly white a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Jeff: The Problem and the Solution
Episode 4
Jeff is an adoptee born in 1964 in Salt Lake City Utah. He is the middle of 4 children (an older sister and younger twins, a boy and a girl) who were…
2 years, 2 months ago
Julie: Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity
Episode 3
Julie Ryan McGue is an American writer, a domestic adoptee, and an identical twin. In her books, essays, and blogs, she explores the topics of findin…
2 years, 2 months ago
Stephen: A Story of Adoption and Destiny
Episode 2
Stephen Rowley, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist practicing on Bainbridge Island,
Washington. He is an adoptee and the father of an adopted son. Born in 19…
2 years, 2 months ago