Kim grew up as an adopted child in Canada, with her biological family's identity a tantalizing secret. It would take a lifetime of searching and a trip around the world... to achieve a reunion unlike any she could have expected.

You can read the memoir this episode is based on, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1778045502

Hope Lives Here is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel and Dan Benamor. This episode was executive produced by Kimberly Jones, based on her memoir East Within West. Story produced by Sophie Lee. With Sydney Shiotani as Kim and Cheryl Chong as Nora. Edited, sound designed and mixed by James Scully. Original music by Derlis Gonzalez.

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