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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: S1 Ep. 12: David
Description: In this episode, Sarah and Louise discuss Chapter Twelve ofย โThe Primal Woundโ by Nancy Newton Verrier and then they speak to David Daniels.Adopted at birth by a pioneering Hollywood television couple who were responsible for creating some of the most iconic series of our time, including I Love Lucy, David grew up in the midst of show-biz Los Angeles far removed from the devoutly Christian world of West Virginia, where his biological parents were from.ย But it was this very Christian faith that compelled David's unwed college-age birth mother to carry David to term, clandestinely flee f...