Human Parts
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Human Parts

This Is Us

What the ‘Better Life’ Narrative Takes From Adoptees

Every adoption story is different

“If I’d known, I would have raised you. I don’t know if you would’ve had a better life. My parents would have wanted you too. They would have helped.”

My biological father said that to me when I found him two years ago. I was 50 — the same age my…

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