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Terrie: An Adoptee Heals Through Creativity
Episode 10
Terrie Novak was adopted as an infant in 1967. She and her adopted brother, Gene, grew up in the security of a loving family and in awareness of thei…
2 years, 9 months ago
Mike: Better Late than Never: An Adoptee Finally Finds Answers
Episode 9
Mike Berman was conceived in Bay City, Michigan in November 1944 and was born on
August 8, 1945 in Nashville, Tennessee to an 18 year old woman who su…
2 years, 10 months ago
Mireille: An Unexpected Encounter Led to Reunion
Episode 8
Mireille Landry is an interracial adoptee who, alongside her identical twin sister, was adopted at 3 months old and raised in a predominantly white …
2 years, 10 months ago
Faith: For One Adoptee, a Health Scare Brought New Revelations
Episode 7
Faith Brady was born on 22 June 1969 and adopted one month later when the US landed on the moon. She has always known she was adopted and had a great…
2 years, 10 months ago
Chris: Home at Last: A Navajo Adoptee Finds His Place
Episode 6
Chris Stearns is Navajo and was adopted in the mid-1960s before the Indian Child Welfare Act existed. His mom was part of the federal Indian Relocati…
2 years, 10 months ago
Nancy: For this Adoptee, the Story Didn't Add Up
Episode 5
Nancy Davis was born in Florida in 1949 and adopted by a family from New York. The adoption was private and no documents were available to investigat…
2 years, 11 months ago
David E: Phantom Parents: An Adoptee Connects the Dots
Episode 4
An unofficial adoption. David Enker was born in Amsterdam in 1970, following the Summer of Love of 1969. Relinquished a few months after birth to ano…
2 years, 11 months ago
Annie O: Where Is My Mum?
Episode 3
I’m Annie O. O stands for my last name. O is round. It’s a hole I still live in, that I’m not allowed to escape. Why the fuck is that how it has to b…
2 years, 11 months ago
Mariela: Home Sweet Casa: A Colombian Adoptee Shares Her Story
Episode 2
Mariela Andersen is the author of "Home Sweet Casa: A Journey to The Universal Heart". Her book is the story of her reunion with her biological famil…
2 years, 11 months ago
Paige: The Family She Never Knew Lived Only Blocks Away
Paige Strickland is an Ohio “Baby-Scoop Era” adoptee, teacher, mom of two and grandmother of three. She is the author of two memoir books, Akin To Th…
3 years ago