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We sit down with author Lauren Stevens and her husband, adoptee Dana Miyoshi, to trace a journey from Osaka to rural Montana and back to Japan, and to name the identity shifts that come with kinship adoption and cultural loss. Along the way, we talk about what secrets do to families, why truth can be painful but freeing, and how listening can be a real form of love.
• John shares a Mother’s Day milestone by honoring his first mom publicly
• Lauren introduces kinship adoption through Dana’s story of being adopted by an aunt and uncle
• Dana explains what it’s like to always know you’re adopted and still carry big questions
• Growing up Asian in eastern Montana and learning to live with feeling “other”
• Returning to Japan through the Navy and the emotions of reunion with birth family
• The shock of learning Dana’s father died by suicide and how secrecy spreads guilt
• How a private bill signed by President Kennedy made Dana’s adoption possible
• Assimilation pressures, losing language, and why cultural roots matter
• Adoption’s impact on love, self-worth, and the fear of being left
• What Lauren hopes readers take from All Sorrows Can Be Born: agency through telling the story and refusing to judge
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