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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: Raven: Living Beyond The Lies
Description: Raven was born in 1949 in North Hollywood, CA. Released at five days old to the delivering doctor and his wife, she has no idea where she went or when her adoptive parents got her.
Raised in Balboa, CA, she always knew she was adopted because she was told her mother had died, giving birth to her.
This story left Raven anxious, guilty, and fearful throughout her growing-up years- that others would die, and she would be alone.
Her adoption into the family was difficult, unloving, and emotionally abusive by her adoptive mother. Though her...