Tell me a little bit more about what you knew about the reason they chose to adopt. So your adoptive parents were Chinese as well? yvonne liu And the fact that she could not, she felt humiliation and shame. And it’s because Confucius and his followers said a woman’s role in life is to bear sons, to bear children. There was a lot of traditional cultural shame that she and my father believed in, and that is adoption is something that should be kept secret. She never explained exactly what in those photos made her choose me. What did your adoptive mother say drew her to those photos of you? yvonne liu
And my mom said, see, because of these photos, I picked you. In my photo album, on the first page are three black and white photos. All I knew was that I was born in Hong Kong. I knew from a young age that I was adopted, but I never knew any details, any back story. When you were growing up, what was the story that you were told about your adoption? yvonne liu Thank you so much for having me today, Anna. Yvonne, thank you so much for sharing that. The night before my breast cancer surgery at age 30, my adoptive mother finally showed me my biological mother’s words, notable for their elegant, intelligent Chinese script: To learn the truth, it seemed, I’d have to be dying. Until then, I knew her as ‘a prostitute, uneducated, uncaring.’Īt least, that’s what my adoptive American mother said, ashamed and angry about her infertility. It would take decades for me to receive her only message. “She left me on a busy Hong Kong stairwell, not to die but to be found. I’m Yvonne Liu, and this is my Tiny Love Story: It’s called “Left to Be Found.” yvonne liu The first story starts over 60 years ago with a baby and a note. 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. Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 įrom The New York Times, I’m Anna Martin. Transcript Left to Be Found Two women share their adoption stories - one a daughter, and the other a mother.
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