BBC Sounds The Conversation: Interview with Author Janine (Vance Twins)

Vance Twins

BBC Sounds The Conversation: Interview with Author Janine (Vance Twins)

BBC Sounds: The Coversation: Why was I adopted? Women Looking for Birth Stories. Interview with Janine Vance and Yennifer Villa

BBC Sounds host Beatriz de la Pava talks to Janine Vance born in South Korea. A trip to South Korea in 2004 to an event marking 50 years of intercountry adoption caused her to think more deeply about her heritage. She found out that while most adoptees had been told they were orphans, this wasn’t the case, and parents were looking for them.

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The Vance Twins have been faced with numerous challenges in their lives but somehow managed to recover. For starters, they were told that they were abandoned on a street in Seoul at birth, which prompted their flight overseas to the United States in the early 1970s. At the age of twelve, their father survived a […]
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Jenette and Janine were claimed to have been abandoned on a South Korean street in 1972. They believed this assertion written in their adoption file for over thirty years.