Who Am I Really?
By Damon L. Davis
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Description
Adoptees telling their stories of life in adoption, efforts to search for their birth family, and how their reunion attempt turned out. Stories that make you laugh, cry, or simply say "wow". This podcast has two purposes: 1) To help you explore your own feelings about your adoption, accept your desire to try to understand your own personal history, and decide for yourself whether a search for reunification with your biological relatives is right for you. It will help you understand how others have dealt with issues related to protecting the feelings of their adopted families who may be supportive of your search, or question your motives and present challenges. 2) For non-adoptees, this podcast will help you understand some of what is in the minds of your friends, family members, or others who are adopted, but you didn’t know if you should ask some of the questions that will be answered here. The stories will make you smile or bring you to tears, but they’re all true as told by the people who lived them. In them, I hope you’ll find something that inspires you, validates your feelings about wanting to search, or motivates you to have the strength along your journey to learn “Who Am I Really?”
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Clean080 – It’s Not About How You Got Here | Rachel is a Hispanic woman of Chilean descent, raised in a Jewish family. She shared her feelings of otherness trying to connect with other Spanish speaking children with her limited proficiency. Rachel describes her father’s blindness to her herita | 2/15/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean079 – There Are Wins And Losses | Paul grew up in a family where he didn’t look like his parents, his father was Mexican and his mother was Japanese. In his childhood, his mother turned incredibly harsh and abusive, especially toward his sister. Searching for his birth mother, | 2/8/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean078 – I’m In Recovery, I’m In A Good Place | Megan grew up in an affluent suburb of Chicago and was comfortable with her adoption, but curious about her start in life. After pregnancy, “I struggled with mental health problems and became addicted to narcotics and anti-anxiety meds. | 2/1/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean077 – I’m A Wounded Healer With My Father’s Eyes | Linda’s childhood was tumultuous after her mother’s death as she was raised in what she thought was her grandmother’s home. When she learned the truth about her life from the neighbor’s kids, at age 10, Linda immediately wanted to find her b | 11/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean076 – What Would My Life Be Like In Korea? | Kim is a Korean born adoptee raised in an all-white community. She shared how she always pushed down her desire to search for her birth mother until the recent political climate brought out the true colors of her adoptive mother. | 11/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean075 – I’m Good On My Own, I Know Who I Am | In her adopted family Tameko’s parents just assumed that as an adoptee, she was misbehaving, but when her older adopted brother showed up he actually started framing her for terrible things, trying force her out. Even worse, he abused her. | 11/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean074 – I Feel Some Of It Too | Serena told me she had a similar experience to what a lot of adoptees feel, even though she grew up with her birth mother. I’m always talking about empathizing with others, so I wanted to hear her story. Serena told me about her birth on a Native | 11/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean073 – It Hurts That Someone Took Her From This World | Ashley shares her story growing up in adoption and having a positive outlook on her life because she felt she was placed for a reason, living life according to God’s plan. Ashley had two sisters, one adopted, | 11/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean072 – Amazing Intuition, One Cousin Connection | Recalling her early family life, Ann said she felt like her parents were sucked into feeling like they had to have a family, and while they were focused on creating a better world in their professional lives, | 10/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean071 – I Would Give Anything To Hear His Voice | Amanda describes her childhood with a father she considered to be a hero and a mother whom she loves despite her physical and mental abuse while showing favoritism toward her sister. She always wanted to search for her birth parents, | 10/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean070 – I Don’t Think She Can Move Forward From The Pain | Kyle tells the story of growing up, towering over his mother and sister and looking very different from them, but being loved. Locating his birth mother he was amazed to see someone he looked like but struggled to get along with as she battled her own | 10/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean069 – I Lived As A Secret, That’s Not Healthy | Honor described a childhood in isolation, so much so that it impacted her health when she started school. Wondering about her biological parents, she developed a romantic story in her mind that they were in love but simply couldn’t keep her. | 10/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean068 – I Don’t Feel Lost, I Know Where I Come From | Daniela was born in a small mining town in Chile. Adopted by a German family who moved from South America to Miami, she never felt like she belonged. While struggling as a teenager and burning to know more about her own heritage she was psychoanalyzed | 9/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean067 – Part Of The Gift Has Been The Work I’ve Done On Myself | Christie was a shy child who wanted to participate in activities but held herself back from engaging. It wasn’t until she was an adult when her adopted brother unexpectedly suggested that Christie might want to search that their mother shared her a | 9/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean066 – I’ve Had A Lot Thrown At Me, But I’m A Happy Human Being | Rick’s birthmother relinquished him into foster care where he was terrorized as a toddler. He was eventually adopted around age 6 but always felt like an outsider. At 16 years old he reunited with his maternal family who informed him his mother was in | 9/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean065 – Two Years Too Late, Then I Was Shocked | Dana received her original birth certificate and when her husband looked up her birth mother’s name they found her obituary. It took her two years to find an address for her surviving aunt and a year to find the courage to write to her. | 9/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean064 – The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction | Julie describes herself as very independent from her parents’ influences and drastically different than her older adopted brother. She tells the story of finding her birth mother thanks to open access legislation in Australia and the gentle influenc | 9/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean063 – I’m Really Glad You Came, But It’s Gonna Be A While | Brenda was born in California, grew up on the east coast and lives in Texas. She’s the child of a military family that has lived all over. When a school project required her to ask her adoptive mother about her family tree at eight years old, | 6/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean062 – One Month Of Bonding Helped Me With A Lifetime In Adoption | Tim was adopted into a Lutheran family and his curiosity about his roots started when he was very young. When he met his biological mother, she portrayed her husband as Tim’s father, but the truth came out when her daughters suggested a different | 6/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean061 – I Know They May Not Love Me… | Stephanie grew up in a very wealthy family in South Carolina and you’ll hear discuss the family’s fortune, but pause before you pass judgment on how easy life must have been. Her story is filled with manipulative behavior, malicious intentions, | 6/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean060 – Its Like Ripping The Wounds Off Over And Over | Alisa describes her life as the child of Latvian refugees who escaped the brutality and destruction of World War II. They raised Alisa in the ways of their heritage and while she identifies with her community and her upbringing, | 6/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean059 – I’m Heather 1 | Vonni learned from the neighbor’s child that she was adopted, but she was too young to know what it really meant. In her teen years, the yearning to understand her adoption led her on a journey an hour away to the adoption agency for her non-identify | 6/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean058 – I Feel Like I’ve Found My Tribe | Nicole was adopted into a military family, the structure of which ran against her freewheeling nature. She’s an interracial woman with interracial adopted parents, so they looked like a natural family. In reunion, | 5/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean057 -My Acceptance Is Etched In Stone | Kendra’s story is filled with peaks and valleys of emotion. After running far, far away in her teens, Kendra’s adopted mother blamed her for her adopted father’s demise. She and her mother were estranged for years until her adopted mother’s m | 5/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean056 – I Feel Whole… Finding Him Was The Key | Every day Leslie’s birth mother called the orphanage where she was left for adoption. So when Leslie located her birth mother 30 years ago, then tried again to connect with her six years ago, it was shocking that the woman wanted no contact with her. | 5/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean055 – I’ve Found My Answers And Fulfillment Helping Other People | Katelyn followed her older adopted sister into rebellion against their adopted mother’s rule. Years later her husband suggested they do DNA tests when she got pregnant. Seeing relationships online she hadn’t considered before, | 5/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean054 – I Just Want To Sit And Be At Peace | After 52 years in adoption, Mary never had a desire to locate her birth family. Her feeling was they had given her up, so she didn’t really want to share how well she turned out. Still, Mary obtained her non-identifying information in 1999, | 4/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean053 – Seeing The Life That Could Have Been | Meredith had enough adoptees around her growing up that adoption was no big deal. Yet, her parents never felt comfortable actually discussing adoption. After getting pregnant, and spurred on by her mother-in-law’s intuition that Meredith wanted answer | 4/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean052 – Little Who? | Kandice grew up in a loving Christian home, an adoptee with one older sister who was biologically related to their parents. Kandic found her biological mother living in Gulf Port, Mississippi where she was lucky to spend time with the woman before losi. | 4/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean051 – The Black Sheep Rocks The Boat | Megan says she put her adopted mother through the ringer emotionally when she was a teenager. She thinks that’s partially because of her anger with her birth mother over her relinquishment. Most adoptees have no clue whom they’re setting out to find | 4/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean050 – Dem Smell De Blood, They Know Who You Are | Kennon was raised by in the lumber town of Mattawa, Canada, where he was one of the only people of color in the community. Growing up in a predominantly white community, he later had trouble assimilating into the black and Jamaican communities when he . | 3/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean049 – It’s Just More People To Love Me | Sherie said she sometimes thought about searching for her birth family, but even talking about it with her husband made her cry. She finally gathered the strength to search after voraciously reading “The Girls That Went Away”. | 3/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean048 – It’s Not Always The Fairy Tale You Hoped For | When Kaitlin was nine years old she was ready to lobby for access to her original birth certificate. She attempted a reunion with her birth mother, who left clues that she wanted to be found. But when she was located she was surprised. | 3/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean047 – I Was In Charge Of My Destiny | When Anna was born, her adoption resulted in Anna and her mother living as siblings. Very early in her life she lost her birth mother and her adopted mother, so she was on her own. Anna shares how she survived those tragic losses, | 3/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean046 – I Am Adopted, It Is Who I Am | Jennifer is a reunited adoptee from Pittsburgh. She’s a petite, white blonde of European descent whose adoptive parents are a Spanish man and a Mexican woman. Through her search, she found both of her natural parents are deceased, | 3/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean045 – This Child Will Find Me | Michael says he always knew he was adopted and spoke openly about it with anyone who expressed curiosity. However, when he launched his search, he didn’t feel like he could share those details openly with his adopted mother. | 2/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean044 – She Never Met Me, But She Saw Me | Angie lived a split life as a child in small-town Mississippi. During the week her mother had her in all kinds of activities and her stepfather was her rock. On the weekends her dad exposed her to alcohol, drugs, and abuse. Through it all, | 2/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean043 – When I Looked At Him, I Could See Things About Me | Paige didn’t even know that searching for her birth family was an option until she learned about it on local tv as an adult. The topic of adoption was closed her whole life, partially because of how her parents understood and portrayed her closed | 2/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean042 – This Little Voice Said, “You Gotta Do Something” | Right before Sharon left for college, her parents sat her down to say she was of age to start looking for her birthparents. She had never contemplated that possibility before, so it took years for her to act on her desire to learn more about herself. | 2/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean041 – I’ve Finally Gotten Myself To A Sense Of Peace | After two years in foster care, Janet was adopted into the foster family. An interracial woman, she grew up in a white midwestern community in Ohio. Janet recalls the love she felt from her family and the isolation of being one of two people of color i | 1/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean040 – I Mattered Throughout The Years | Jennifer was perfectly comfortable with her adoption until her teen years when her self-awareness was heightened, and her desire to learn more about who she is bloomed. Protecting her parents feelings, she pushed away her desire to search for decades | 1/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean039 – I’m An Adult, But They’re Acting Like Children | Mitch’s parents adopted his older brother, then him. Then they got a surprise addition to the family. They had a great life outside of Chicago, but Mitch did feel somewhat sidelined by the attention paid to his youngest sibling. | 1/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean038 – Interview w/ One Of My Two Genealogists | This summer when I met Bill and found out he was a genealogist, I was excited to hear everything he had to say. I wanted to hear more about his own personal history, how he got into genealogy, and the clients he’s helped. | 12/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean037 – Interview w/ A Search & Reunion Social Worker | Lee, my search & reunion social worker in Baltimore, MD, unlocked many of the answers about why I was placed for adoption. She worked to locate my biological mother, Ann, and read my birth mother’s introductory letter to me over the phone. | 11/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean036 – I Found Solace When She Explained The Abuse | Despite loving and respecting his parents, Chris struggled through family life with an alcoholic father and having almost adopted sister with emotional problems. Chris had a challenging childhood being bullied at school and dropping out of his senior | 11/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean035 – Interview w/ A Search Angel – For Every Answer You Get, There Are More Questions | November is National Adoption Awareness Month, so I’m bringing you a different perspective from the adoption community. On prior episodes you’ve heard adoptees talk about the amazing work that they’re search angels have done with them. | 11/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean034 – All My Life I Knew I Would Be Tested | Adam struggled with his adoption as a child. He didn’t realize how much it was impacting him until he experienced some intense emotions while studying abroad. That interaction was a huge trigger for his search. | 11/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean033 – My Sister Reunited Too, But Didn’t Know About Me | Jenny journaled about her birth mother from an early age. She grew up in a loving family, but the urge to find her birth family was always there. When Ohio opened it birth records, she obtained some vital information that led her to her birth mother o | 11/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean032 – Intervew With The Gift Of Adoption Fund | Today I’m bringing you something a little different for #NationalAdoptionMonth. There are a lot of people, processes, and policies integral to the adoption of a child, raising a child, and supporting that person’s desire to search for their birth fa | 10/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean031 – Finding Hope | Jamie grew up an only child with her wonderful adoptive parents in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA. She was happy to hear in reunion that her birth parents had already talked about her existence with their families. Living in Tennessee, | 10/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean030 – Don’t Fall For “I Can’t Talk To You On The Phone” | Jen had a very nice childhood with her parents and never really wanted to search for her birth parents until her friends started having kids. But the ultimate spark that ignited her desire to search came from a family tragedy. | 10/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean029 – A Lifetime of Interveners Saw Me Through | Born in the Panama Canal Zone, Stephanie was adopted by a US military family stationed there in 1961. She was never told she was adopted, but she always knew there was a family secret. When she was 43 years old Stephanie discovered the secret was her o | 10/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean028 – Working Out The Puzzle Pieces Helped Me Feel Whole | Elise has always been into genealogy and loved looking at family photos & records when she was a child. As a child of adoption, she wondered where her family of origin was? Reunion has had its ups and downs for Elise. | 9/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean027 – I Got A Picture Of My Mother’s Sadness Though Other People | As a kid, Rebecca was considered quirky. Unbeknownst to her, that quirkiness was an after effect of fetal alcohol syndrome. She tells the story of learning her birth mother’s lonely and troubled past, and the closure she finally got after she learned | 9/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean026 – I’ve Got A Second Mom And I Can Love Them Both | At 16 years old, Ron decided to satisfy his curiosity about his first family. But his search was challenging. He was born on a South Carolina Air Force Base that had closed, the internet didn’t have the reach that it has now, | 9/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean025 – I Feel So Lucky, I Got Way More Than I Bargained For | With extra time on her hands, Jennifer used a Search Angel to locate her biological relatives. She connected with her maternal Aunt over Facebook Messenger, simultaneously emailing her birth father using his contact info from LinkedIn. | 9/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean024 – I’m Deeply Hurt, But I Hope You’re Happy | Louise was one of four a dual heritage children raised by white parents in England. She had a fantastic childhood. So much so that she has adopted twice. But along her impulsive journey into reunification, Louise was exposed to uncomfortable situations. | 9/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean023 – I’ve Found My Joi | Growing up Joi tried to convince herself that being adopted didn’t bother her because she had such a great family. But in reality, great parents did not erase the fact that she didn’t know her birth parents. | 8/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean022 – I’m Still On This Journey, Using My Experience to Help Others | Marni grew up in Madison, WI in a transracial family that lived a predominantly white community. Everywhere they went, they were stared at for the heterogeneity they brought to the community. The attention their family received was a constant remin | 8/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean021- With Every Heart Break, My Heart Gets Bigger | Marcie finally felt plugged into her biological family after years of divisive behavior from her adopted mother. Her mother never nurtured a bond between Marcie and her adopted siblings and had a hard time overcoming some of her own childhood issues. | 8/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean020 – I Don’t Silence Julie Anymore | Michelle says growing up she felt very different from her adoptive family because she looked completely different from them. When she was a teen she embarked on a voyage to reunite with her birth mother, traveling back to the UK where she was born. | 8/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean019 – Adoption Was Chapter Two Of My Life, I Had To Learn About Chapter One | Michael grew up in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY. He led a comfortable life in the Williams loving home when he accidentally discovered, at 12 years old, that he was adopted. The discovery that he actually had another identity created conflict in him, | 7/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean018 – What I Gained Through Reunion Is Context | Rebecca always knew she was adopted, but she also recognized that she didn’t quite fit with her adopted family. While she loved them a lot, she noticed physical and personality differences between them. She was taller with a different skin tone than t | 7/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean017 – He Is My Brother And I Will Find Him | Renee searched for her mother literally her whole life. But her search predated the internet so she frequented the library and scoured local high school year books. with hopes of finding someone she felt she was related to. | 7/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean016 – Shall we Cry? No, Let’s Just Laugh! | Jennifer had a very happy childhood and always felt special because she was an adoptee; she knew her parents really wanted her. Their family was heavily involved with the Children’s Home Society in Los Angeles where her mother did fund-raising work. | 7/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean015 – We Wish We Could Have Grown Up Together | David tried to find his birth mother in the early 90’s in California. He received non-identifying information back then, but it wasn’t much to act on at the time. Later, in 2015, motivated by his wife and his “lifetime sister”, | 7/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean014 – I Would Not Have Made It Without My Faith | Sara was the baby in her family of four biological half brothers to one another, and one other brother who was also adopted like her just like her. When she hit puberty, a naturally more emotional time in our lives, she lost her grandmother, | 6/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean013 – It Wasn’t That He Didn’t Care, He Cared Too Much | Jennifer learned that she was adopted when she was six years old. Interestingly, her adopted parents shared a letter with her that was written by her biological mother whose instructions were that Jennifer should have it when they felt she was ready. | 6/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean012 – I Need This For My Sanity | Tom advocates for adoptee rights and shares his personal experiences about being adopted. He was adopted as an infant and things went so well his parents decided to adopt two older boys when Tom was two years old. | 6/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean011 – From Childhood Rebellion to Thankful Reunion | When Sean was a kid, he found out he was adopted. That news created some conflict in him and challenged his identity. He began to rebel against his adopted parents, but some sage wisdom from his grandmother quickly set him straight. | 6/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean010 – How Can I Meet Her Without Telling Her Who I Am? | Steve was raised in Baltimore, MD in a predominantly Jewish suburban neighborhood. But as he looked around at his friends and other families, he truly questioned his own identity, especially as an adoptee. In an era before electronic record keeping, | 5/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean009 – What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger | Mary is 78, but she still has stinging memories of her mother leaving her in another woman’s guardianship. The era was the Great Depression but her mother wanted to go out and have fun without the responsibility of raising In guardianship she was sex | 5/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean008 – She Knew She Had To Do This For Me | Cindy had one sister growing up in a mormon family in Las Vegas. But the two adoptees looked very different: Cindy’s blue eyes and blond hair were in stark contrast with her sister’s olive skin and brown hair. | 5/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean007 – I’m Great With My Family, They Love Me For Me | As a child Denise’s family blamed her for a tragedy that took the life of her younger brother. They mistreated Denise and her tyrannical stepfather ultimately saw the children as a means to his own financial gain. | 5/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean006 – I Forgave Her When My Son Was Born | In adoption, Julie grew up in the Midwest with a family of trans racial adoptees. Her brothers are adopted from Vietnam, and her sister is white. Each of them has a different perspective on searching for their biological families. | 4/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean005 – Part of Her Memory That She Lost Was Me | Terry shared the story of his biological parents’ wartime extra marital affair that brought him to life. He said his adopted parents felt he was “the sun the moon and the stars”, and spoiled him that way. As a teen, | 4/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean004 – Lucky Online, Connecting When You’re Not Even Looking | Growing up in Leah’s home everyone was comfortable with adoption. Her adopted mom is an adoptee, and her two siblings are adoptees, though they are biologically related to one another. The kids were made to feel special because her parents chose the | 4/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean003 – When the Search Finds You | Kathleen grew up with five siblings, and they were all biologically related to her parents–she was the only adoptee! As a child she was told that she was adopted, but it didn’t quite sink in until the topic of adoption came up in conversation and h | 4/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean002 Laura R – When the Law is in the Way, Try DNA | Laura became a dear friend when we quickly bonded over being adoptees while working together. Laura had been searching for her family of origin for years, before the age of the internet, and the promise of consumer DNA testing linking long lost relativ | 4/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean001- The End of Summer Cake | I’ve shared an adoptee bond with my dear high school friend Andre for years. In this episode, Andre shares the story of his loving adopted family, being the older sibling to his adopted parent’s biological son, | 3/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean000: Welcome to Who Am I Really? | Welcome to "Who Am I Really?" | 3/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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I am an adoptee who has been in reunion for 35 years, which has been amazing, awful, and complicated, I LOVE this podcast. Sometimes when I listen I am saying "yes!" "that's right" "oh man, I feel you" out loud. I am truly blown away at how good this podcast is. Damon is the perfect host, compassionate, curious, validating, and unfailingly kind. I'm so grateful to have found this.
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This podcast has healed a lot of wounds I didn’t know I had.
Recently found my biological family and it’s been a wonderful experience. My father did not know about my existence and is thrilled. My birth mother has no desire to meet me. Hearing other people’s stories has helped me with this experience.
Thank you again Damon for all of your hard work and also for sharing your story!
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Extremely validating and supportive. There are parts in every story I relate to very strongly regardless of how different. There are many parallels in all of them. I find myself literally yelling H@LL YEAH often and in an onion cutting room at other times.
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