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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: Valorie: The Long Road to Family
Description: Valorie was born in New Jersey, she was relinquished at birth and placed with her adopted family at 2 months old. There were many difficulties and challenges growing up, it certainly was not a fairytale childhood. Some of the challenges included not bonding with her adopted mother, problems at school with other children and authority figures, drug and alcohol addiction in her teen years. Despite these difficulties she found sobriety at an early age, moved out at the age of 19 and started the journey of healing. Although she did not actively search in her younger years, her biological family was ofte...