Adopted at 52: Uncovering Gray-Market Secrets & Finding Mary Smith - Al Isaacs
What happens when asingle phone call from a doctor unravels five decades of your family history,and how do you search for your biological mother when you were born into theunregulated gray-market adoption practices of the 1960s?
Al Isaacs is a retired stand-up comedian, longtimeimprov comedy instructor, former professional wrestling journalist, and authorof the memoir Finding Mary Smith. At age 52, while placing his fatherinto hospice and caring for his mother through advanced dementia, Al receivedan accidental revelation from his mother’s oncologist: he was adopted. Evenmore shocking, he…
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