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00:00When I was born, I was left on a flight of stairs.
00:03I was found in a denim jacket and a shopping bag.
00:05And then I was found by dog walkers.
00:07About four months later, I was adopted into a Nigerian family.
00:10Years of anger, hurt, stress.
00:14But now, thank you Lord, honestly, before the age of 25, I feel good.
00:18When she was found, the whole nation was asking the question,
00:22why did her mom abandon her?
00:23I felt all the good and the bad combined.
00:26What she had said now, she was staying with a friend, who was a nurse,
00:31and she explained that after giving birth to me and to Croydon,
00:35and by the time she came back, I was nowhere to be found.
00:38She was calling the woman, calling her.
00:40She didn't pick up.
00:42Hours went by, she was calling her.
00:44She couldn't call the police because she didn't have papers to stay in the country.
00:48So she would have been arrested and then they probably would have told her to leave me behind.
00:52But something didn't add up.
00:54Was her birth mom telling her the whole truth?
00:56I feel like I meant to trust my birth mom.
01:00I feel like off the bat I should, but she's a stranger at the end of the day.
01:03But what I don't get is when I asked who the friend was,
01:06this friend that was the one that took me,
01:08she didn't remember the names.
01:09And I'm thinking, surely, if this was your friend,
01:12and this is a big, big situation in your life, you would remember.
01:16So I feel like you now can understand why I feel like things were not adding up.
01:21But then at the same time, I'm thinking, this is traumatic for her.
01:24She said that she thought I was.
01:25For years, she didn't know who her birth mom was,
01:28until an unexpected event brought them back together.
01:30In 2011, she had left her kids at the front of the store,
01:34and then she went around to go and do her shopping.
01:37By the time she had come back now and reached the till,
01:41police were there standing waiting for her.
01:43They arrested her, and then they took her to the station,
01:46got her fingerprints.
01:47Police were like,
01:49wait, your fingerprints match with a baby that was found in 2001.
01:55Those fingerprints were on the denim jacket.
01:58She started to suspect whether it really was her mom's friend who left her there.
02:02But fortunately, she was able to find answers to other questions she'd had her whole life.
02:07I don't have to wonder if where my dad is from,
02:10he's Ivorian too, so I'm fully Ivorian.
02:13I'm one of seven.
02:15Well, one sadly passed away.
02:17I feel like all the anxiety, all the stress I've been carrying,
02:21all the pain that's been built up,
02:24all the trauma is gone.
02:28Though she doesn't know how much to believe of her mom's story,
02:31she has only this to say to online haters.
02:33I know lots of people have been saying,
02:35well, they don't sit right with me.
02:38I wouldn't go if I were you.
02:40Are you me?
02:42Were you in my situation?
02:44You don't understand how long it's taken me to even have the courage to even face that woman
02:50after all the mental turmoil is put on me.
02:54I've been carrying years of trauma,
02:56years of pain.
02:58The trauma is gone.
02:59Well, the trauma has been trauma.
03:03I've been raising on me now.
03:03I'm going to take you in my hands.
03:05I'm going to also have the power of trauma together.
03:06My steps are all two weeks.
03:09Are you on theği?
03:11I'm going to wear my hp.
03:12I'm going to wear her too very much.
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