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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, 4 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months ago
Kay: A Self-taught Genetic Genealogist Discovers the Story of her Life
Episode 18
Kay was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1973 and immediately placed for adoption. After a stay in foster care, she was adopted into a small close-knit fa…
3 years, 6 months ago
Cormac: An Adoption, An Irish Mother-Baby Home, and the Search for Answers
Episode 17
Cormac was born into a mother-and-baby home in Ireland, which was known to be exceptionally cruel to both mother and child. He was adopted at five mo…
3 years, 6 months ago
Shari: From Foster Home to Wounded Healer
Episode 16
Shari was adopted at the age of four. She spent the first year in a hospital. Then went to several foster homes after that. When she met her adopted …
3 years, 6 months ago
Greg: Searching for a Place to Fit In
Episode 15
Greg was born California in 1969 and placed in a closed adoption as an infant after spending 6 weeks in foster care, which was a common practice with…
3 years, 6 months ago