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Mary’s story

Mary describes herself as a sort of “person X”. Born in Greece, she was adopted in 1955 by an American couple in the Midwest. She has never met her birth mother and knows very little about her father.

In this episode, Katerina Bakogianni tries to find out about Mary’s birth mother and answer some of the questions Mary has been struggling with for years.

Born Greek is a Melon Media production.

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