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This Was All Supposed to be Secret

Family Secrets

CHAPTER

Discovering Adoption and Family Secrets

The author, Susan Kiyo Ito, reflects on her childhood as the only Asian family in a small town, her experience of being adopted and half Japanese, and her curiosity about her origins. She talks about her parents' support when she revealed her adoption search and the pivotal moment when she obtains her birth records by stealing them from an OBGYN's office.

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