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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: Cormac: An Adoption, An Irish Mother-Baby Home, and the Search for Answers
Description: 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 months old. He's always known he was adopted but it was never spoken about. Ever. He did not look for his biological family until his adoptive parents died. He re-connected with his birth mother just before his fiftieth birthday. Sadly that didn't work out. He's just recently found out about his birth father, who is deceased. He found this podcast by chance and is devouring it daily. He would like to send his g...