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...there’s a mine of information available to kids nowadays but back then there wasn’t that much so I didn’t really know who I was or where I came from…”

Amerjeet, 34

Other people answering What were the hardest things for you about being adopted?

  • Video by Zoe

    “It felt quite alone wondering why I wasn’t wanted, struggled a lot of rejection and self-esteem and confidence”

    Zoe, 26

  • Video by Hollie

    “Sometimes I feel pushed out of the family which they don’t push me out the family but that’s how I feel in my heart because I know I’m not their daughter”

    Hollie, 21

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