November 14, 2023

S2E89 ADOPTEE ELIZABETH SHARES HER STORY WITH MIND YOUR OWN KARMA

51 minutes

Elizabeth was born in the ‘60s in Washington, DC and relinquished to social services immediately thereafter. Her first family was Japanese, and she stayed with them as a foster baby for three and a half months. Her adopted family welcomed her, along with their adopted son, into the family.

The few details told to her parents and then to Elizabeth were that her mother was Greek, and so was her father, who was a chauffeur to the Greek Ambassador. Her father was older, and her mother in her 20s at the time of her birth.

All her life, Elizabeth felt the Greek connection and the desire to find her birth family. Her mother was the central focus. In 2017, she enrolled in two DNA websites, and for a year, all her connections were distant cousins with predominantly foreign names, until she connected with a close relative, possibly a first cousin or nephew. He was, in fact, her nephew who had

been placed for adoption privately and had his birth family backstory.

This was her awakening as the complicated tale of her trans-continental birth family unfolded. Siblings have been reunited, and the story is one of survival for all of them.

Elizabeth shares her story as she sorts out her dual identity and her quest to cope with who she was born as & who she is becoming.

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