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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: Victoria: A Change in the Law Led to Search and Reunion
Description: Victoria Rich never expected to search for her biological family. Always curious about her origins, she did a photography project at the infant home where she was born but did not pursue any personal searching. Then she read The Girls Who Went Away and was struck that so many of the women interviewed said they thought about and worried about their babies all the time. She had grown up hearing the message that you should never look because it would be too painful to open up the old wounds for the birth mother. After about a decade of debating...