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Relinquished: An Adoptee Roundtable Discussion About the Complexities of Navigating Those Early Wounds
Sarah and Louise join their season three authors, A.M. Homes, Damon Davis, and Megan Culhane Galbraith in an intimate roundtable discussion about liv…
3 years ago
Rudy: Fighting for Adoptee Rights
Episode 27
Rudy Owens is a Detroit native, born in the mid-1960s at Crittenton General Hospital of Detroit, one of the country’s largest maternity hospitals ded…
3 years ago
Kate: An International Adoptee Struggles to Bond
Episode 26
Kate Betancourt was born in 1978 in Bogotá Colombia. She spent three months in the hospital after her Mother left, after her birth. Kate was transfer…
3 years ago
Jeffrey: Untangling the Layers of a Corrupt Adoption
Episode 25
Jeffrey Leventhal was born In 1970 in Miami, FL, and didn’t learn until age 12 that he was adopted. He was told that he had a twin, which was just on…
3 years ago
Anne: A Disrupter Digs Deep
Episode 24
A conversation with fellow adoptee Anne Heffron.
Anne Heffron, author of You Don’t Look Adopted, Truth and Agency Writing Ideas for Adopted People, Wr…
3 years, 1 month ago
Fred: Finding Out at 41 that the Life You Knew was a Lie
Episode 23
Everyone learns to accept life’s twists and turns as they live out the daily rituals of their lives. But what happens when an event completely alter…
3 years, 1 month ago
Katie: On the Outside Looking In
Episode 22
Katie is an ESL teacher from Pennsylvania and was adopted in 1966 at the age of six weeks. She grew up always knowing she was adopted, but became th…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jay: Using Journalism Training to Track Down Family Roots
Episode 21
Jay Blotcher was adopted in June of 1961 at the age of one year by a couple in Randolph, MA, a Boston suburb. His dark complexion prompted countless …
3 years, 1 month ago
Julie: A Long Journey for Self-Compassion
Episode 20
Julie was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1968 at a Salvation Army home and was adopted 5 days later by a lovely family. She always knew she was adopted b…
3 years, 1 month ago
Paul: A Kidnapping, An Adoption, A Lost Twin: One man's Quest for the Truth
Episode 19
When he was ten years old, Paul Fronczak was snooping around for Christmas presents in a crawl space in his family’s Chicago home. There, he found hu…
3 years, 2 months ago