![My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing [biological mother], my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing and very emotional.](/assets/img/quote-photos/my-adoptive-mother-tirelessly-worked-most-of-her-life-to-build-up-my-self-esteem.jpg)
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