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My parents helped me overcome my trauma of before my adoption by always being there for me, and never giving up on me, and always loving me.”

Simon , 20

Other people answering How did your adoptive parents help you to come to terms with being adopted?

  • Video by Avril and Simon

    “I don’t think I knew how to react to it properly. Everything that had happened and now the fact that I.. I was settled and had something and, you know, I had love, and… you know, a family. ”

    Avril and Simon, 57 / 20

  • Video by Zoe

    “but I think in my experience no matter how much they loved me there was still always some sort of gap or emptiness”

    Zoe, 26

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