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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: Kathleen: A Reunion Full of Surprises
Description: Kathleen was born in 1968 in Northern California. Her birth mother relinquished her for adoption immediately upon birth, and Kathleen was then adopted by a loving family who already had a 3-year-old adopted son. When Kathleen was 22 years old she found her birth mother. Thirty years later she learned that her birth father was an enforcer for the Hells Angels and was shot and killed when Kathleen was seven years old.She also learned that she has at least seven sisters and one brother on her father’s side -- all from different mothers from the sam...