Yvonne Liu knew from a young age that she was adopted, but she didn’t know the details. All she knew was that she had been left by her birth mother in a busy stairwell in Hong Kong. It wasn’t until she was 30, on the night before a critical surgery, that she was given a handwritten note in Chinese that transformed her understanding of where she had come from. Meanwhile, Lynn Domina had never envisioned herself as a mother — until she met Amy, a spunky 8-year-old who was obsessed with “Harry Potter.” On today’s episode, we hear from two women about their adoption journeys and the emotions and discoveries they’ve experienced along the way.
Love now.
And did you fall in love last?
Love was stronger than anything.
You for the love.
Love.
And I love you more than anything.
There's still love.
Love.
From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
This is modern love.
On today's show, we've got two stories about adoption, one from the perspective of a mother, and the other from the perspective of a daughter.
The first story starts over 60 years ago with a baby and a note.
It's called left to be found.
I'm Yvonne Liu, and this is my tiny love story.
She left me on a busy Hong Kong stairwell not to die, but to be found.
It would take decades for me to receive her only message.
Until then, I knew her as a prostitute, uneducated, uncaring.
At least that's what my adoptive american mother said, ashamed and angry about her infertility.
To learn the truth, it seemed I'd have to be dying.
The night before my breast cancer surgery.