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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: Mary: Turning Questions into Advocacy
Description: Mary is a Baby Scoop Era adoptee born in 1965. She was not adopted until she was almost 8 months old, after being moved to a couple of foster homes. She was told she wasnât âdoing wellâ at the first, likely because they had too many children there. Raised in a small town by a conservative Catholic family with her brotherâalso adopted two years laterâMary and her brother always knew they were adopted.
She always felt a sense of disconnectionâthe âweird kidâ who didnât fit inâso searching was a natural byproduct of that. She began trying to...