00:00When I saw her, it was just like, this is my life.
00:05Around the age of three, four, I was looking at my parents and saying, why don't I look like you?
00:11When I was 13, as a birthday gift, my mom gave me like a photo of my birth mom.
00:16It was a lot of mixed emotions. Why doesn't she love me?
00:20In 2020, I got in a really bad car accident.
00:24I started having strokes in about 22.
00:26After my second stroke, my partner, Kevin, had started looking for my birth mom for me.
00:32But when the third stroke had happened, we were getting ready for surgery and we get a random call from
00:39Peru.
00:39And it was my birth family.
00:43I had spoke to my birth mom for the first time.
00:45And that was the inch of hope that I needed.
00:49It's definitely that.
00:53Hello?
00:56It really just felt like a dream.
01:00I was still at shock.
01:03My initial reaction when I saw her was just like, this is my life.
01:09You know, something I had really struggled with a lot growing up.
01:15My identity, where am I coming from?
01:19And it was so beautiful to kind of establish this relationship I've had with her and then come in full
01:26circle of it all.
01:27I love you.
01:28I love you.
01:30I love you.
01:30I love you.
01:31I love you.
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