00:00I'm so sorry I had to go through that.
00:01I mean, I-I-I-I cannot even imagine
00:04how difficult that must have been.
00:06Having a kid at 16, having to give her up.
00:09It was devastating.
00:10And now, you know, giving Augie up...
00:15Yeah.
00:16I guess it triggered all these feelings.
00:18Oh.
00:19Suddenly this need to know who she was,
00:22that she was okay, just, it took over.
00:25I just was...
00:27I was just gonna open the envelope,
00:29find out her name,
00:31and then look her up on the Internet.
00:33What?
00:34But then?
00:35Then I found out that she was still living in Chicago,
00:41and she was in medical school,
00:42and in the same field as me.
00:45I mean, what are the odds?
00:46You know, a lot of us just go round and round
00:50on the nature-versus-nurture debate,
00:52but it is amazing how many of our behaviors
00:56our preferences appear to be genetic.
00:58It just felt that everything in the universe
01:00was leading me to meet her.
01:01I totally get how it would feel that way.
01:04I do.
01:05I'm not trying to disrupt her life.
01:07I swear.
01:07I just had to see her, and...
01:13And now that I have, I'm good.
01:15Huh.
01:16So you don't intend to see her again?
01:19Of course I want to.
01:22But I won't.
01:24She's safe.
01:25She's thriving.
01:29I got what I needed.
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