Navigating Adoption and Rediscovering Family: Lia's Journey

Adoptees Crossing Lines

04/14/23 • 30 min

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I’m Lia and this is my adoptee origin story from foster care to reuniting with my siblings.

What I shared

(01:02) What I was told about my bio parents

(02:18) What actually happened

(04:59) My adoptive parents

(05:34) My birth father’s side of the story

(06:36) My access to adoption information

(10:04) Accessing my biological family name

(12:33) Meeting my siblings

(19:49) Aspirations for biological relationships

(21:47) What I tell people about my background

(25:21) What’s medical foster care?

(26:35) Death of my foster mom (Ms. Loretta) & my bio mom

Links

Lia’s LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/liaepps

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Credits

Special thanks to Samuel Oyedele for editing our podcast, support his work on Instagram or e-mail him at [email protected]

04/14/23 • 30 min

Adoptees Crossing Lines - Navigating Adoption and Rediscovering Family: Lia's Journey

Transcript

Dr. Noelle:
Hey everybody, welcome back to Adopt These Crossing Lines. It is my honor and pleasure to welcome Lia Epps to the mic. We have had a lot of requests for our origin stories, so we're gonna go ahead and have Lia do hers this evening. And we're just gonna kind of let you free flow for a little while there Lia, and then Tosha and I will have some questions for you.
Lia:
Thank you so much. That sounds good. So I guess I can kind of start with, when it comes to my story, what I

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