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Patricia Knight Meyer on Identity, Adoption, and Fatherlessness
Identity is the story we tell ourselves about who we are, but what happens when the earliest chapter of that story is a question mark instead of a memory? Host Sayan talks with author and adoptee-rights advocate Patricia Knight Meyer about growing up as a black-market adoption survivor, tracking down her biological parents decades later, and what that search revealed about authenticity, belonging, and the masculine expectation to have it all figured out.
Patricia also opens up about the absence of legal protections for birth fathers in the U.S. and how abandonment, whether through adoption or…
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