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On the 5th annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Nil Köksal speaks with the author about her memoir 'Children Like Us.' As the child of a Métis birth mother with Anishinaabe, Cree and European ancestors and the adopted child of a Mennonite father and Ukrainian convert mother, Brittany Penner's family life can best be described as "complicated." But those complications are what make her memoir searingly beautiful and utterly unique.
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On the 5th annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Nil Köksal speaks with the author about her memoir 'Children Like Us.' As the child of a Métis birth mother with Anishinaabe, Cree and European ancestors and the adopted child of a Mennonite father and Ukrainian convert mother, Brittany Penner's family life can best be described as "complicated." But those complications are what make her memoir searingly beautiful and utterly unique.

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