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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: Emma: The Truth Beneath "Chosen"
Description: Emma was born in Tennessee in 1989 and flown home just two days later — on Valentine’s Day. As a child, her adoption seemed more like a fairytale than a lived experience. Growing up in the country in an old farm house in the rolling blue hills of Western Massachusetts, she spent most days drawing, writing or exploring the fields and woods. Despite her home and her loving and creative family, she began to experience persistent anxiety and depression that worsened with age.
Meeting her birth mother at around twenty set off a cascade of often severe mental heal...