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Transracial Adoption: Two Sisters, Two Journeys with Maeve and Shea Lucas
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“We don’t look like we belong together, but we do.”
That’s what Maeve and Shea Lucas’s mom used to say when strangers couldn’t see them as a family. In this episode, Dr. Shawna Gann sits down with the sisters, both adopted as babies from China and raised by White parents in Northville, Michigan. They share a family and an adoption story, but their experiences of identity couldn’t be more different. Maeve found community early, surrounded by Chinese friends and later a network of adoptees and mixed-race peers. Shea spent years feeling “not Asian enough, not white enough,”…
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