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Jessica: For this Adoptee, Unsealed Records Reveal Answers Close to Home
Episode 4
Jessica is a 1970 baby scoop-era adoptee, who started discovering her roots at age 50. After more than 80 years of closed records in NYS, she was abl…
2 years, 5 months ago
Valerie: Mystic Masquerade, An Adoptee's Search for Truth
Episode 3
Valerie Naiman is an adoptee, singer, story-songwriter, eco-village founder, ontologist, and author. Her #1 bestseller book, Mystic Masquerade, an Ad…
2 years, 5 months ago
Chris: Unraveling the Mystery of Family History
Episode 2
Chris Valdheims is a domestic adoptee born in the late 1970s and adopted in the early 1980s after spending years of his early childhood in foster car…
2 years, 5 months ago
Margaret Jane: For this Adoptee, the Questions Came Early
Episode 1
After being an only child all her life, Margaret Jane’s adoptive parents adopted four more children through the foster care system. This experience o…
2 years, 6 months ago
Susan: I Would Meet You Anywhere
Episode 14
Susan Ito is the author of the memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, published by the Ohio State University Press in November 2023. She co-edited the li…
2 years, 6 months ago
Stacie: For This Adoptee, the Longing Tugged at her Heart
Episode 13
Stacie is a Canadian born and an adoptee to same race and religion parents in 1991-1992. She is part of a mixed family of adopted and “home-made” sib…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ken: The Unknown Led to Answers
Episode 12
Ken DeStefano is a domestic adoptee born in the late 1960's and raised in a caring and loving home. As an adoptee, he has had a largely happy life, …
2 years, 6 months ago
Victoria: A Change in the Law Led to Search and Reunion
Episode 11
Victoria Rich never expected to search for her biological family. Always curious about her origins, she did a photography project at the infant home …
2 years, 7 months ago
John: Operation Baby Lift and the Erasure of Culture
Episode 10
John Frey was born in Vietnam and brought to the United States as part of Operation Babylift when he was a year-and-a-half old. John often struggled…
2 years, 7 months ago
Kristal: Because She's Adopted
Episode 9
Kristal Parke is a talented Cree filmmaker, producer, podcast host, and adoptee, whose personal journey has driven her to explore themes of identity,…
2 years, 7 months ago