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Why meeting birth parents can create more questions than answers

I'm adopted and finally met my birth mother but she's nothing like I imagined and now I feel more lost than before I found her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The reality of biological connection may clash with idealized fantasies of origin and belonging.

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