The stranger across from me was my sister: how one adoptee uncovered a tragic past
A Dutch group that reunites children with their birth parents in Bangladesh is fighting to stop all international adoption
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It was not long into a research trip to Bangladesh, on behalf of an organisation seeking to reunite children adopted abroad with their birth relatives, when Kana Verheul found herself huddled in a cafe toilet, comparing birthmarks with a stranger.
That trip seven years ago was one of many that Verheul, 49, had taken to the country of her birth since she was 16 years old, travelling back to Bangladesh for the first time as part of a “roots trip” organised by the Dutch government for children such as her, an orphan adopted to the Netherlands as a baby.
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