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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: Aje: Finding Her Voice and Facing Hard Truths
Description: Adopted at birth, Ajé loved sharing her adoption story throughout her childhood. She always had a feeling that she had been wanted by her birth parents, and was a tad obsessed with discovering where, and who, she came from. Around age 9, good, old-fashioned snooping led her to a document with clues about her birth parents and the person she would have been if they had kept her. She had no way of knowing that document would later lead to an unexpected, serendipitous, [absolutely impossible] reunion, just in time for her 18th birthday.A survivor of abuse in c...