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Adoptees nationwide may soon gain access to their original birth certificates

  • Written by Andrea Ross, Lecturer in the University Writing Program, University of California, Davis
Adoptees nationwide may soon gain access to their original birth certificatesFor adopted children, obtaining original birth certificates is a difficult process and includes searches in storage rooms such as this one in the Boston City Hall basement.Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

I was adopted in Colorado in the late 1960s. At the age of 20, I was stricken with a serious illness that necessitated...

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